Science and research: students will define Canada’s future

We call on the new standing committee to identify how to better include and financially support students in this nation’s future science and research landscape. The future of science and research ultimately depend on it.

As Liberal MP Kirsty Duncan noted when she introduced the motion to create this new House Committee on Science and Research Committee in the last Parliament, 'over a half century has gone by during the most extraordinary scientific revolution in history, and successive Parliaments have produced just 12 reports [on science and research].'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JEREMY KERR, KIRSTEN CRANDALL, ALEXA D’ADDARIO, GABRIELLE EDNIE, OLGA KOPPEL, CATHERINE SIROIS-DELISLE, AND MATTHEW WATSON

November 25, 2021

In a rare moment of agreement, all parties in the last Parliament voted to create Canada’s first dedicated House Standing Committee on Science and Research. Whatever their political disagreements on other issues, Parliamentarians recognized one of the clearest lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: s...

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