Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They're not mutually exclusive, no; they're closely related to each other.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The concerns we had were not so much at the level of the teacher in the classroom. But when the initial problems happened in 2005 and the university's computer was seized—copies of the hard drive—it had all the faculty and student records, faculty research materials, things that

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'd just like to clarify one thing. There is no accreditation of universities in Canada, because almost all universities are public institutions chartered by acts of government. What I referred to is the Canadian Association of University Teachers. When a university violates a f

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll be very quick. There is no university in this country that operates on proposal-based funding. Every university in Canada operates on core funding. A university cannot survive when it has to exist year by year on proposal-based funding, because of the long-term commitments

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Let them finish, if you wish, Chairman.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to members of the committee for inviting us to be here. I'm the executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers. We represent 65,000 academic staff, at 122 universities and colleges across Canada. For the past five year

Finance committee  Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mulcair. One of the difficulties with the federal government's last budget was that while there was a good deal of money, it's not being spent wisely. I think that is, as I mentioned at the end of my comments, the result of lack of adequate consultation with

Finance committee  Although we've been critical of the government in many ways, we were happy when the government created the Canada student grant program, because Canada was one of the few industrialized countries without a national grant program. Unfortunately, that program only provides $2,000 a

Finance committee  The idea of a grant program is to make it universal and then supplement it by loan programs for those in greater need.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm Jim Turk, the executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers. We're delighted to be here. We represent 65,000 scientists, researchers, teachers, and librarians at 121 universities and colleges across the country. You have a cop

Industry committee  Yes, and I think there's no disagreement. The question is simply what's the best way to realize that goal? I would just cite, in concluding, a comment made by Noam Chomsky. He may be known to many of you as a left-wing critic of American foreign policy and also as one of the mos

Industry committee  I think I began my presentation on research by indicating that the federal government had significantly increased the funding for research. What I was talking about was the kind of pressure there is to focus research in more applied or more commercially viable areas. If you look

Industry committee  Before doing this job I spent 15 years working for the trade union movement, with 10 as education director for the Ontario Federation of Labour, so we had a lot of discussions of this, and that point was raised. Interestingly, the trade union movement is one of the strongest in p

Industry committee  One of the interesting things among many European countries is the issue of accessibility. A good number of European countries have no tuition fees. Some, in fact, not only have no tuition fees, but actually provide grants to help students with the non-tuition costs of going to u

Industry committee  I think most families in this country aspire to have their children go on to some form of post-secondary education, whether it be university, college, or another kind of training. As the proportion of government funding has decreased, the principal replacement has been increased