Science and Research committee  I'm sorry; I missed the title. The audio cut out when you said the title of the report, so I need to—

Science and Research committee  Yes, that was my research project that I led.

Science and Research committee  I don't have the report in front of me, so you have me at a disadvantage. I think I was making the same point that both of the other witnesses were making. You need to fund the science. You need to fund the post-secondary education, and you need to fund the students and make sure

Science and Research committee  Mr. Desroches can speak to Quebec. I'm not qualified to do that. I can speak to Ontario. The reality is that going back to the ending of the block funding formula from the federal government to the provinces in 1995, the federal share of funding that is going to post-secondary

Science and Research committee  There have been a number of very innovative programs introduced at NSERC at the federal level. Ontario had one that targeted community colleges. I think some were targeted at the polytechnics. When we think of university interaction with industry and firms, I think we need to lo

Science and Research committee  I'm not going to say yes, because I'm employed by the largest university in the country, so that's a bit of a loaded question. I will reinterpret it slightly, with your permission.

Science and Research committee  Absolutely. The labour market that I'm referring to is created by the graduates of all of our post-secondary institutions, from the community colleges through the polytechnics to the universities. It comes through all levels of graduate education, from bachelor through master to

Science and Research committee  I think that's certainly the case with many scientists who go abroad. It's simply the fact that you set up a new life in a different country, you become static, and it becomes much more difficult to reintegrate into the system. The Canadian scientific community is much different

Science and Research committee  That's fine. I knew I had a little more to say than what was allowed. I'm happy to respond in questions.

Science and Research committee  I'm talking often about not just services, but also goods and products. We have common-purpose procurement programs. The federal government has introduced several programs over the past five or six years to purchase innovative products from small Canadian technology firms. These

Science and Research committee  I'm sorry; that would require a detailed study, which I haven't undertaken.

Science and Research committee  If you look at the overall export statistics, we sell primarily into the U.S., and to a secondary degree to the U.K., and a little bit to the EU, but if you also look at the overall composition of our exports, we export, overwhelmingly, minerals, oil and gas and manufactured good

Science and Research committee  Yes, the plan was 20,000 a year for three years.

Science and Research committee  I believe they were. This was colloquially referred to as the “Nortel program”. It resulted from a tremendous amount of pressure exerted on the government by Nortel in the late 1990s when they were expanding rapidly. I've heard some people express the view that it was a waste, be

Science and Research committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to emphasize that I'm speaking as a professor at the University of Toronto and a co-director of the innovation policy lab. I don't represent the Munk School, and I'm certainly not authorized to speak for the University of Toronto as a whole. I've b