Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, as I said, Canadian universities work with many partners on research projects across all disciplines. We will listen to our public security officials. We will work only with partners that they approve.

Science and Technology  Madam Speaker, that is an excellent question. While the Harper Conservatives ignored diversity in research, we understand that we cannot afford to leave any talent on the sidelines. Yesterday I announced new grants and launched Dimensions, a made-in-Canada version of the intern

Research and Development  Mr. Speaker, after a decade of neglect by the Harper Conservatives, we knew we had to invest in and modernize Canada's research system. That is why this week I announced the first winners of the new frontiers in research fund. This fund will invest in international, interdiscipl

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Esteemed committee members, thank you for the opportunity to be here on the occasion of the tabling of the main estimates for the 2019-20 fiscal year. Science research and evidence-based decision-making matter. They matter more than ever as the voices that

Industry committee  Thank you, Lloyd, for being such a strong champion of research. When I came into this role, I pulled the data. What I found is that, in one of our granting councils, our researchers weren't getting their first grant until age 43. You simply cannot build a research career when yo

Industry committee  Lloyd, please pass along, first of all, my best wishes to Jibran. I know his work. If you have specific questions, they should absolutely go to Environment Canada. One of the things I've brought in, though, is that we want.... Traditionally, academic science as the outside rese

Industry committee  Thanks, Lloyd. I know you did visit PEARL, the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory. It's our most northerly lab in Canada. It studies atmosphere and the links between atmosphere and ocean biosphere. We believe it's an important lab. It was going to be shuttered un

Industry committee  It's important that the researchers apply for research funding just as any of our researchers across the country do. They can apply to NSERC. They can look at other funds. We're of course always happy to put our officials in touch to see what funding might be available.

Industry committee  I'd like to thank my honourable colleague. He and I have worked together a very long time. I, too, would like to correct the record. The data that you presented, the latest data, as you pointed out, was 2017, but 2018 was the historic investment in research, $6.8 billion in res

Industry committee  I will respond to that. I was very pleased to commission the fundamental science review of which Dr. David Naylor was the chair. It was a blue ribbon panel. We had former UBC president Dr. Martha Piper. We had Nobel Prize winner Dr. Art McDonald. We had the chief scientist of Que

Industry committee  I do want to respond.

Industry committee  I do want to respond to you. It was the first review of federal funding in 40 years. We took that report very seriously, and it led to the $6.8-billion budget, the largest in Canadian history. My last sentence—

Industry committee  Under the previous government, your government also asked Dr. David Naylor to do a report. There was to be a press conference on a Friday and that report was buried.

Industry committee  First of all, let me say that we decided to bring back the position of the chief science adviser, a position that was abolished by your government. We appointed Dr. Mona Nemer, an internationally renowned cardiologist with many awards. Your party's former INDU critic said it was

Industry committee  She has been given—