Science and Research committee  I think increasing scientific literacy is a way to increase the participation of citizens in scientific research, at least one way. The other way is to have more support, more programs and more funding for citizen science. I often prefer to call it participatory science. That ma

Science and Research committee  I could start and then Mona could continue.

Science and Research committee  Certainly there's everything related to sustainable development. That's a huge topic. There's a lot of interest from citizens—at least that has been our experience in Quebec—related to climate change, but this is much larger than that. On the circular economy, for example, we cou

Science and Research committee  First, I congratulate you and advise you that I will use you as a poster boy for citizen scientists and that scientists can become MPs. That's quite amazing. Yes, there are many other examples. We could send you more information on that. One is a woman on the street in Montreal

Science and Research committee  We are used to talking about diplomacy of a more political or cultural nature, but science knows no borders. We work in teams all over the world. For example, the Palestinians worked alongside the Israelis on CERN's particle accelerator in Geneva. So science diplomacy consists of

Science and Research committee  It is increasingly coming through. My colleague Mona Nemer and I do a lot of things together. The Réseau francophone international en conseil scientifique was launched in partnership with Ms. Nemer's team. Her team will also participate in the forum on science in French to be he

Science and Research committee  We could certainly do more and forge more ties with the three federal funding councils, in particular for Quebec's Fonds de recherche. We can always do better, from an overall perspective.

Science and Research committee  Thank you for your question. The objective of the Réseau francophone international en conseil scientifique is to expand the capacities for giving scientific advice to elected representatives and senior officials all over the francophone world, in the francophone countries of Eur

Science and Research committee  Yes, for sure. I'm coming from a very small village in the Lac-Mégantic area—Lac-Drolet. It's not me. I was not involved in any of the proposals or peer reviews or whatever. Lac-Drolet had an engagement, a grant, citizen-proposed, in terms of the quality of the water in the lake

Science and Research committee  Maybe I could add a bit. I talked about scientific literacy. Certainly, one way is to increase scientific literacy all across Canada. I think we saw that with the pandemic. It's very important to do that from day one, almost in primary school. Young kids are very curious. They w

Science and Research committee  I think there are a lot of opportunities there. We're lucky, I'll say, in Canada—in Quebec, in my case. There is a lot of interest in science, how science is built, from our citizens. Compared to some other countries, there is a lot of interest, so it's a matter of connecting, m

Science and Research committee  I don't know it for the whole of Canada. It's still small. When we started to think about the program, one of the things was that we need to give some money for support that is enough so that they can do the project with the scientist, the collaboration scientist. However, also,

Science and Research committee  Eventually. Basically, the key thing.... The first time we launched the call, we did that too quickly. They submitted proposals, and we linked them with scientists. Then they started the project. Now they submit the project, and for about six months, sometimes a year, they inte

Science and Research committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, colleagues and friends, I am happy to be back with you. Thank you for the invitation. Today, I have chosen a somewhat unique and possibly slightly provocative angle to talk to you about participatory science and citizen engagement, so I am go