Science and Research committee  The colleges overall are doing a lot of work when it comes to thinking about how to support those coming from Ukraine. However, I'd be hard pressed to give you a hard number on that. There is a lot of support that I'm seeing among our members.

Science and Research committee  They don't face the same challenges because the challenges they are addressing are the ones directly brought to them by businesses that have commercialization challenges, and those are then solved for those businesses. The intellectual property remains with the business.

Science and Research committee  I would say that the major benefit of applied research is that it is responsive to industry. It's responsive to the partners who come to the table. Therefore, it's very pragmatic and it really responds to those commercialization of prototype needs, some of the basic challenges in

Science and Research committee  What concerns me about sources of funding other than CCIP is the way the peer review is set up. Even if polytechnics and colleges are eligible, they're not always able to benefit because of the way the peer review process and the eligibility happen in practice. I would say that y

Science and Research committee  Thank you.

Science and Research committee  Well, what I would say to you is that based on our conversations with NSERC and the college and community innovation fund, roughly 30% of all the proposals that are put forward by the college and polytechnic community are successful, so that's another 70% of projects that are bei

Science and Research committee  I think it's important to recognize that the people who are undertaking projects within the college and polytechnic system are faculty members and students within the system. Really, there is no limit to the talent. It's what's available in every faculty in every part of the inst

Science and Research committee  What we're hearing and what our members are hearing from the small and medium-sized businesses they're working with is that they're short on talent in all areas. There's not just one. I would think that it would be dependent on the sector, but certainly what we've been hearing ac

Science and Research committee  No. For the most part, my understanding is that while a portion of the graduates do go on to careers in other parts of the world, the majority of college and polytechnic graduates are being developed for the local labour market and they're staying in the local labour market.

Science and Research committee  Thank you.

Science and Research committee  Thank you very much. Good evening, Madam Chair and honourable members. I appreciate the opportunity to address you as part of this important study on how best to attract and retain science and research talent in Canada's post-secondary institutions. I'm the CEO at Polytechnics

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. I think the intersection of precarious work and precarious immigration status leads to highly vulnerable working conditions for these women. The pandemic has really exacerbated the physical and mental health challenges of these jobs. The women I spoke to talked abo

Human Resources committee  That's certainly true for those who are waiting for permanent residency through the caregiver program, but even for those who do have permanent resident status, there's a very top-down decision-making structure within many health care institutions. Those who are personal suppor

Human Resources committee  I think one thing I would say is that there is a vast ability for the institutions to be thinking about simulation, hybrid learning and personalized learning. All of that takes equipment and, as I've said, a post-secondary infrastructure that would support increasing the number o

Human Resources committee  Maybe I'll pass this over to my colleague Matt. I know that he has put together some specific examples to share.