Science and Research committee  The key is always that the science attracts the science. If you want to attract scientist outside of the metropolises, then you need to create the centres of innovation there. That may mean setting up centres of excellence at locations where you'd like to set them up. I don't thi

Science and Research committee  I would definitely agree. Tenured positions are the linchpin of the university system. It's only with tenured positions that you can ensure that you get the best scientists. As I mentioned, you're competing with other countries for these scientists, and I think, if tenured positi

Science and Research committee  That's a very difficult and complicated question. I'm not sure I'm sufficiently expert in that area to make a very detailed comment, but I should note that the granting system is very different in Canada from that in the U.S. and Europe. The money is spread much more thinly among

Science and Research committee  By money, what I think I was referring to was not so much salary, although obviously it's always attractive to have a nice salary. I think what attracts scientists most is to have the funding opportunities for their research to be able to excel to their potential.

Science and Research committee  I think that's very difficult to predict, and I think, if you look at the history of it, if you were trying to predict what the cutting edge of science would be today—if you were doing that 10 years ago—then very few people would have been able to predict what the research was go

Science and Research committee  Thank you very much, Madam Speaker, for this opportunity to speak with you today in my personal capacity as a Canadian and as an academic living abroad. Although I've lived outside of Canada for some years, I have a strong connection to Canada. I visit frequently and have much e