Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. Of course, for SSHRC, 60% or 70% of students at the undergraduate level are women. To promote emerging researchers and research in smaller institutions, we are the only agency that has an institutional grant that is devoted to small institutions so th

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, Madam Chair. On behalf of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and of course our president Ted Hewitt, thank you for the opportunity to appear today in support of your work on the economic security of women in Canada. We th

Industry committee  For the emerging technology, the grants have been adjudicated. It's a question of giving the money to the researchers so they can do the synthesis. There's going to be a symposium, and there's going to be a report. We might invite you to the symposium if you're interested to com

Industry committee  Let me give you an example. In a recent discussion with the folks from Mitacs, we talked about an Ontario company where 15 intern engineers were working on water treatment processes. Instead of hiring a consultant, these people accepted as their 16th intern a student specialized