Science and Research committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members, for the invitation to speak again before the standing committee, along with my colleagues Madam Lamoureux and Madam La Traverse. I am very pleased to appear before you today in my capacity as president of the Social Sciences and Humani

Science and Research committee  I can't comment on that particular project. I know we're certainly able to provide you and members, and anyone—and I do this quite often for MPs, as many of the members will know—with lists and topics of things that are being researched. I can tell you that whatever is being pro

Science and Research committee  Thank you for your questions. To answer the first question with regard to the value, for the Canada graduate scholarships, I believe there are about 3,000 master's scholarships and 1,000 doctoral fellowships. Those values were, in accordance with my understanding, set when the p

Science and Research committee  Thanks for that question. I absolutely agree, but the reality, as I think the committee is aware, is that we're funding a minority of students. In fact, it's not a large minority of students, so in effect we can increase the rates, and we've certainly been saying that. This serv

Science and Research committee  I would certainly have to defer to my colleagues to put together some data for you. I know that in terms of the process, quite often in universities—and again, it may be a question for university association reps to answer—internal policies in effect prevent students from holdin

Science and Research committee  Excuse me. Is that question for me?

Science and Research committee  As Dr. Adem mentioned, there are programs that do rely on contributions from the private sector, such as Mitacs, and I think they work very well. Also, I would say that Canadian universities have had reasonable success in attracting industry to support projects on a contract ba

Science and Research committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm very happy to be here with my colleagues Valérie La Traverse and Valérie Laflamme. I'm sure all of us in the room agree that science and research have become more important than ever in the current environment as economic, environmental and social chal

Science and Research committee  I knew you were going to do that.

Science and Research committee  Yes. It was provided to SSHRC on behalf of the agencies to provide institutions with the funds they need to develop their own security measures locally.

Science and Research committee  It went through our department—through mechanisms we've established that are run by Madame Laflamme, who can give you more detail about that—and was distributed and is being distributed to institutions for the purpose—

Science and Research committee  Yes, absolutely.

Science and Research committee  They do a lot of different things. In fact, they propose to us the kinds of things they need to do locally to meet security requirements, and then we fund them on that basis. That can vary, as you can imagine, between institutions, depending on where they're at or how far along

Science and Research committee  I'd ask Valérie to speak to that if she's able to, but the point is that the money is provided to institutions based on their needs and on their understanding of what they need to do to enhance their own security measures. It's provided on that basis. I don't believe there's any

Science and Research committee  I would probably start by saying that we would follow the guidelines that we were given and that we agreed to. We would implement that. A lot of things, as you would guess, within the social sciences and humanities would not come close to some of the screening being suggested,