Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the invitation to be here. I'm here with my colleagues, Ursula Gobel and Manon Tremblay, from SSHRC. I want to begin, as you did, by recognizing and acknowledging our presence on the unceded territory of the Algonquin people. As president of the Social Sciences

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Do you mean globally or with respect to indigenous people?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. You're asking the question about SSHRC. I'd be pleased to try to answer with respect to the other funding councils as well, CIHR and NSERC, which are also doing important work. I want to make that very clear. If I'm speaking here about my agency, I'm responsible for that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll start if I may. It's a really, really good question. What I would say is that from the very, very start, we have taken a very broad view of reconciliation at SSHRC, the tri-council, and with the work we're doing together. There's a view that research on reconciliation is re

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That is absolutely true; it is new. As agencies, we've always funded what we would call indigenous research. For example, the CIHR has set a floor of 4.6% of its funding to support indigenous research. SSHRC spends every year—year in, year out—about 10% to 12% of all of its fundi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm going to try. First of all, what we said is that when researchers or students, typically graduate students, apply to us for funding, in the projects they design and in the projects they elaborate, they can certainly—and we encourage them to—go well beyond traditional western

Science and Research committee  Bonsoir, Madam Chair. Thank you for your invitation to appear before this committee and also for your long-standing leadership in science and research. I'm very proud to appear before you today as president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council since 2015. I'm

Science and Research committee  It was an honour and a privilege to take on that role. Based upon where we started, the measures we have taken and put into place over these past few years have been remarkable. We do have a report we published just this year that we can certainly pass along to the committee and

Science and Research committee  —to harmonize support for early career researchers. I could go on and on.

Science and Research committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Blanchette-Joncas. The Fonds de recherche du Québec's structure isn't all that different from the federal structure. The three agencies were combined into a single agency. In Quebec, the conditions are a bit different from those in the rest of Ca

Science and Research committee  That's a very good question. I spoke to the previous minister about that very issue. Currently, I think the split is 22‑38, so we're doing a bit better. We are also active in tri-agency programming to increase the share of funding available to researchers in the social sciences

Science and Research committee  Yes, absolutely.

Science and Research committee  Those data are available, and we can share them with the committee.

Science and Research committee  It's an excellent question. For most researchers, they already know the answer. They know where they work. They know where their colleagues are, and they know with which agency they need to work. We have developed a couple of mechanisms to assist those folks whose work tends to

Science and Research committee  My name is Ted Hewitt and I am the President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.