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

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  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  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