Investments in discovery have never been more important to Canada

Science is a long game. Funding for research and scholarships now will pay off in future.

Science Minister Kirsty Duncan, right, speaks to Arthur McDonald, a winner of the Nobel Prize in physics and a Canadian, in 2016.The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY MARIO PINTO

September 20, 2017

Recently, I joined Science Minister Kirsty Duncan for an announcement of a major investment in cutting-edge research and hundreds of post-graduate scholarships, both funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). What NSERC does best, year in and year out, is inv...

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