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October 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Alejandro Adem
Science and Research committee We're focused pretty much on university-based researchers and their students. I think you have to develop best practices that apply to a whole ecosystem regardless of where the money comes from. There are conflict of interest forms. I am a professor at UBC and we fill out these
October 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Alejandro Adem
Science and Research committee I believe that the researchers made plans to mitigate security problems and that was enough. As for the 4%, for some of the applications, we could not determine whether it was enough to ensure the security of the research. We then turned those files over to our colleagues in the
October 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Alejandro Adem
Science and Research committee We think our preliminary review is sufficiently thorough. I will ask my colleague to give you a more detailed answer.
October 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Alejandro Adem
Science and Research committee Yes, we'd be happy to.
October 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Alejandro Adem
Science and Research committee We're waiting impatiently.
October 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Alejandro Adem
Science and Research committee What was it they say in Star Trek? It's days and not years.
October 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Alejandro Adem
Science and Research committee I have mentioned that we will always be tested. Let's not be naive. One of the issues here was that the whole ecosystem was extremely naive. I think our government and the folks who work there are really doing an excellent job of trying to mitigate the risk and to make it foolpro
October 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Alejandro Adem
Science and Research committee That's right. They were referred to the experts.
October 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Alejandro Adem
Science and Research committee Yes, that's because we can only use public information, things that are available on the web. You can learn a lot about entities just by looking things up. It's surprising.
October 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Alejandro Adem
Science and Research committee I think my colleague might want to comment.
October 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Alejandro Adem
Science and Research committee We have been advised not to fund certain projects of that kind, but we've not gone retrospectively.
October 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Alejandro Adem
Science and Research committee We're part of government. We're in the ISED portfolio, so I do want to acknowledge that Minister Champagne has been out front on this issue. He cares a lot about research security. We're awaiting further instructions to implement these expanded guidelines.
October 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Alejandro Adem
Science and Research committee Early on, when I started in this position, we definitely indicated that there were potential issues that we were aware of. We knew there were folks working on that in the government. I was, in fact, quite pleased when the new policy was announced, quite pleased with its developme
October 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Alejandro Adem
Science and Research committee At this point, yes, it is.
October 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Alejandro Adem