Science and Research committee  Thank you very much for your question. I would say there are at least two aspects that need to be addressed on that. First off, many do leave the country to get enhanced training in techniques and methodologies that would not be available here, and that's very reasonable. We wa

Science and Research committee  We are below what would be international averages that we should be looking at with regard to funding. On the exact percentage, we could give you that breakdown by major comparators, but there's no place where we would be exceeding it.

Science and Research committee  I'll need to get back to you with a written response as to how those dollars are allocated. Many of them are already attributed specifically to programs that I would not be able to access. As for the exact amount, though, we will follow up directly with that response.

Science and Research committee  The answer to that is yes, there is nothing that would preclude me from doing that as a supervisor. The issue is that, at the end of the day, for the vast majority of funding for CIHR investigators, you have a fixed amount of funding. If you increase to the students, there is les

Science and Research committee  It would have an immediate and tangible impact.

Science and Research committee  Thank you very much, Chair, for the question, and thank you to the member for that. Clearly, my answer to that would be that we have to have the concern with regard to the health of our students as a paramount objective. A graduate degree, whether it be a Ph.D. or master's, in

Science and Research committee  I'm very happy to respond to that. Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. Very quickly on that, I would agree with everything that my colleague, Dr. Hewitt, has expressed there. It is a system-wide issue. I think we do need to set what will be, obviously, a floor for all of th

Science and Research committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank the committee for the invitation to appear before it today. Both as CIHR's president and as a scientist, I consider it a privilege to address this committee, and more so since this committee has drawn attention in its first t

Health committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. You are quite correct. There have been some really impressive outcomes through the integrated youth services, beginning, really, since its inception in 2012. Just to give a measure, it's a unique way of reaching out to adolescents and children w

Health committee  It's a terrific question. We have, since the inception of the pandemic itself, invested funding through rapid response programs. In addition to that, the government will be releasing another $20 million directed specifically at long COVID. As an example of the type of work tha

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm the same as Dr. Mithani. I am most happy to answer questions as they come forward.

Health committee  Thank you very much, Minister. Thank you for the question. I would be happy to answer if you request it.

Health committee  We do have an integrated dementia research strategy in the country, both by ourselves, our Institute of Aging, and working with the Public Health Agency and with a number of research groups across the country. We are looking at everything: how to improve health care for individua

Health committee  Yes, thank you very much, Minister, and thank you very much for the question. As the minister has indicated, the consequences of COVID-19 for upwards of 30%, and higher in some populations, will be long-term. That is measured as greater than six months. No organ system is spared

Science and Research committee  This is a worldwide effort to deal with COVID, SARS-CoV-2, and the next coronavirus that will come along, and so all countries are working very hard to develop vaccines to understand new ways of therapies to block the receptors. I would say that irrespective of what country, and