Finance committee  I'm sure that's probably true. I'm afraid I have no expert knowledge of that.

Finance committee  I assume that the numbers you gave were from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, NSERC.

Finance committee  I think comparable numbers would apply to NSERC, which I happen to be more familiar with. There have been significant increases, but they are virtually all targeted research. Our point is that it's essential. Economists everywhere agree that for a country to be successful in th

Finance committee  May I answer that?

Finance committee  Did anybody read the front page of the Globe and Mail this morning? “Breakthrough” is a word that shouldn't be used as much as it is, but we have had a breakthrough in Canada in understanding breast cancer. It may well lead to the ability to provide personalized treatments that c

Finance committee  I think all the evidence is that the country that initiates the key basic understanding, which is what's happening here, is very well placed to achieve a lot of the spin-offs.

Finance committee  Recommendation two is specifically aimed at the situation that universities face, or the higher education sector generally, where the research funding that flows from the granting councils is for direct costs only. That would be things like salaries of graduate students, material

Finance committee  Oh, yes, quite so. It's not appropriate that the university should have to fund a very significant portion of the true costs of research out of its general operating funds, which come to it from the provinces principally for education.

Finance committee  I think part of the problem is that there's what people call the valley of death. It's the stage in our product or services development when the technical capability has been developed but you are not quite at the point at which you can take it to market. The U.S., for example, d

Finance committee  I think there was an important point that may have slipped through. There have been increases to the granting councils' funding in the last two or three years and there have been cuts. Of course, there was considerable concern about the cuts last year in the context of what's goi