Science and Research committee  I think identification of what exactly the goal looks like and feels like, and the timeframe to get there.... I think the most successful moonshot goals first identify what the problem is and what percentage or proportion of Canadians would agree that of all of our social pressu

Science and Research committee  I'm going to embarrass myself a bit, because it's not an area that I know well. In my history—I was full time at McMaster before coming to Toronto—there was a remarkable man named Dale Buchanan, who was known as “bat man”. Much of the research looked at three things within the b

Science and Research committee  I think, selfishly, any of the above that we've discussed. I personally think the most important thing that Canadians are struggling with today is access to high-quality well-being in health care. Therefore, I would say I'd love to see that Canada has the world's best health car

Science and Research committee  No, I was actually talking about a sustainable health care system and thinking about how we would create that, which would include basic research as well as pedagogical or educational research.

Science and Research committee  Absolutely, Mr. Cannings. When you think back to the chamber in which some of you are sitting, you may remember that it was Monsieur Lalonde, I believe, in the early 1970s, who really introduced the health of the population to Canadians. That really means not only an illness car

Science and Research committee  It does require us to discuss what a healthy ecosystem looks like. What does the continuum look like? Does it need to be a disease-specific moonshot, or could it be an underlying scientific theme that we understand has relevance to many disciplines and many diseases, and hence my

Science and Research committee  For researchers, obviously their first loyalty is to their science and finding the antecedent conditions for success. That means availability of research funding and availability of funding for students—and your previous panel spoke about this—and availability of a livable wage f

Science and Research committee  I absolutely believe that we can dramatically improve the journey. Cancer patients in Canada have come a long way. Cancer has become, in many cases, somewhat of a chronic disease with a recurrence of cancers and people's mortality being dramatically reduced. When I look at childh

Science and Research committee  I think one place where the provinces and the Government of Canada can come together as a first in the world is the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and the broader Toronto cancer community. We do not have the number of facilities we see arise in the United States and other parts

Science and Research committee  It's a great question, Monsieur. I think the challenge, obviously, is whether we're going to focus the moonshot and be very purposeful about outcome, metrics and measurement, or whether it will be a continued investment through the tri-councils and beyond, including industrial r

Science and Research committee  Thank you for an excellent question and the privilege of talking with you. Speaking of dementia and brain disease, organic brain disease is particularly a disease of aging. While Canada is still a young society relatively, we are, of course, an aging society. We also look at the

Science and Research committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. It's a pleasure to be back with your committee. My name is Kevin Smith and, as the chair said, I work at the University Health Network. I have the good fortune of working with literally thousands of researchers and research staff. I'm here this evening to

Government Operations committee  Thank you, sir.

Government Operations committee  I truly wish I had a crystal ball on this one. It's a very difficult question, although I am somewhat encouraged. As you know, recently there has been a clinical trial out of Oxford University, and from all I can understand from the popular press, they have produced over one mi

Government Operations committee  Thank you.