Industry committee  I agree completely with Dr. Taylor and Dr. McDonald on the overall framework. My only other comment is that committee should not be afraid of the concept of accountability within the scientific community.

Industry committee  That is something we live with every day. We live and die on the basis of peer review, on the basis of the success or failure of our experiments. That has to be an element of any ongoing program to support these sorts of projects.

Industry committee  On the astronomical facilities that Canada has invested in, there have been four generations of facilities. We're not running those old facilities any longer, and we don't expect to be running the current generation 10 years from now.

Industry committee  I'll start and then just come back to the Mars rover question. Clearly you don't do a rover project because of the spinoffs; you do it because that's actually the only way you're going to be able to learn about our world in a way that we haven't been able to before. It's extraor

Industry committee  The issue around what Canada should be involved in and what it should not is actually a key question around where Canada's priorities are. If you actually look at the basis on which each of these projects was chosen and selected, however, they actually come back to the question a

Industry committee  That's right.

Industry committee  Very briefly, I would just comment that if you look at media exposure, either SNOLAB, or NEPTUNE, or the astronomical projects that Canada is involved in, that's actually very significant. We have one of our strongest advocates here in this room, Peter Calamai, science writer a

Industry committee  Absolutely. My point, however—

Industry committee  The CFI—which was one of the instruments by which the federal government had put in place the capital funding—recognized fairly early in the program that there was in fact a shortfall in operating support. The legislation for CFI was amended to allow the CFI to use some of its ow

Industry committee  In the case of astronomy, the National Research Council has some funding from it's A-base to support the observatories that are currently committed to. There is some short-term funding that is not A-base but is one-time only that has been allocated over the years; it isn't commit

Industry committee  On the two points you make around the critical mass and having good science advice on overall national science policy, those are two critical features that have to be appreciated and understood. I agree completely with the issue around critical mass. In the context of the astron

Industry committee  Let me just fill in a little bit on the astronomy side as well. Public outreach and broad education of the Canadian public have been a priority in the astronomy plan right from the outset, and significant resources have been allocated towards that. The long-range plan, in fact,

Industry committee  Let me start by noting that these projects are all international in scope. In fact, all of the projects the witnesses have spoken about require significant international partnership. That means there is a significant engagement and collaboration internationally right from the out