How the universities lobby got $1-billion-plus from the feds

The Canada First Research Excellence fund started as an idea thrown around by a few university presidents.

The campaign for an influx of cash for university research projects in the 2013 budget—presented here by then-finance minister Jim Flaherty, left, and former PM Stephen Harper—fell just short, but would succeed the next year.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

September 14, 2016

The $900-million in federal funds doled out to universities last week was part of a research fund green-lit by a Conservative government looking for an “out-of-the-park” scientific success story, say some of the key players that lobbied for the fund’s creation. The story of that two-year lobb...

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