Science and Research committee  There's one project, CHIME, as an example—not in Quebec, as it turns out—that is asking for additional resources. They have a new idea that came from Canada that has a major effect on radio astronomy in terms of trying to understand that field. I don't have other specifics.

Science and Research committee  There's no doubt that these moonshots are of such a scale that Canada can't do it alone. There has to be international co-operation. By its nature, these large international co-operations involve the sharing of data very freely among hundreds of scientists. It's very important t

Science and Research committee  You're what my wife refers to as a real doctor.

Science and Research committee  I'm very sorry, but I'm not fast enough on the controls. Would you please repeat that?

Science and Research committee  Well, fortunately, there's another McDonald, named Bob, who helps a lot in some of these things. What you say is very understandable. I, of course, know very little about your expertise. I think peer review is a very important process in all of the decision-making that happen

Science and Research committee  I would say, “Do you know how this universe we live in came about? Do you have a feeling for how it all started and how it developed to the point that we have the things we have around us? That's what we're studying.” We have this tremendous description of a big bang 13 billion

Science and Research committee  I'll answer you, but of interest, one of my first summer jobs was working at the steam plant in Glace Bay that produced the steam for the reserves of Canadian heavy water that we used in the experiment. I'm from Sydney originally. I think Canada has a significant advantage in ar

Science and Research committee  It has been the norm in particle physics for a particular country that hosts a major facility, such as Fermilab in the United States, for it to pay for the activities at the facility, and for it and other countries who come in to build big experiments to share the costs of such e

Science and Research committee  There's certainly a significant continuing interest in these fields. We were very fortunate, for example, in the field of particle astrophysics, which is related to SNOLAB very strongly, in being successful with a Canada first research excellence fund. In the process of that fu

Science and Research committee  I started back in 1984 with the SNO experiment, and we had a single thing in mind. There was a big question in science to be answered, and fortunately, with the support we got in Canada, we were able to do so. SNOLAB itself, as I said, was created in 2003 with a program that wa

Science and Research committee  Again, I think it's a question of balance. There needs to be balance between applied science and basic science in the funding decisions. There also needs to be some fraction of the budget that goes into—sorry—moonshots. You want Canada to be capable of hitting on the world's scen

Science and Research committee  CHIME is a wonderful example of Canadian ideas that basically revolutionized radio astronomy in certain areas. Instead of focusing a telescope on a small fraction of the sky, you look at the whole sky, and you use very sophisticated data analysis techniques to be able to extract

Science and Research committee  Certainly I have been emphasizing major experiments. It's what I am involved in. It's what SNOLAB is good at. It's how SNOLAB can make a place for Canada and train extremely good people with, but I think it's very important to have perspective on the entire funding system. I thi

Science and Research committee  I certainly agree that it's very important that there be a balance. What Canada needs is strong support for basic research. I think the funding councils require strong support. Another topic on the table is adequate research funding for individuals at the faculty, post-doctoral

Science and Research committee  Well, in testifying to the Bouchard committee on the future of scientific funding in Canada, one of the topics that I was asked to speak about was in fact the major research facilities. They shared with me the plans that have been put forward by the government, which I think go a