Industry committee  On pressing issues like infrastructure with respect to policy and infrastructure placement, for example, with respect to placement of pipelines and pipeline construction or other projects that would affect communities.... If you're asking me for specific examples, I'd be more th

Industry committee  It has not been approved by council. It will be on March 14th, which is next Monday. Thank you, sir.

Industry committee  I think we see this quite a bit in extractive industries, but not exclusively. The ones I know best are the ones where I've had the most discussions, and they include FPAC, the Forestry Products Association of Canada; and on the other side of the equation, the Canadian Council fo

Industry committee  I don't necessarily want to dwell on the pipeline issue. If you're looking to extract resources in an area, for example, and it makes sense for the community and it makes sense for the company, and it's for the benefit of Canada, not everybody always agrees all the time with res

Industry committee  This is an extremely important question, and I want to be absolutely clear. I can't tell you that everybody likes everything we fund. That's a fact. I can say that—and I think the other presidents can probably say the same thing.... One thing I have to say and be absolutely clear

Industry committee  We are going to talk about that again, though.

Industry committee  Yes. Thank you for your question. The good thing about working in a shop where there a lot of policy people is that this becomes a routine exercise. That came up, specifically. Our council chair is Jack Mintz. Some of you may know he is a very well-regarded Canadian economist. T

Industry committee  We will share.

Industry committee  I'll have to answer by saying yes and no—in a way. The first part of the answer is that we are an agency that supports all Canadian researchers in the post-secondary sector. We have competitions that are open to all researchers and students. The applications will come from anywhe

Industry committee  Yes, I'm good, but I'm not that good. I think I got a few of the questions, so if you wouldn't mind, as we go along...?

Industry committee  Yes. I'll start and everyone will help me.

Industry committee  To be clear, the program is now in place. It's part of a broader endeavour that SSHRC undertook through a broad consultation process starting about two years ago. It was called “Imagining Canada's Future”. The sole objective of this program was to help identify, with the help of

Industry committee  I would go on the record as saying that we share your concern. Our mandate is to fund research and training in social sciences and humanities in Canada and to provide advice to government. Our view is that this is best applied to research that's further upstream in terms of the d

Industry committee  You've raised an interesting point, and I just want to pick up on it a little bit. It's one I've mentioned often. That is, some of the research that's done in the upper end of the spectrum doesn't always result in new products and in technological advances, particularly in our ar

Industry committee  I will begin and then I will turn the floor over to Ms. Bérubé. In my view, the biggest problem is that entrepreneurs and companies are not really sure about what SSHRC does. That is our main challenge. We have a lot to offer to those companies and to the Canadian public, but we