Canada can’t afford to leave research out of the innovation conversation

To date, in the hopes of commercializing key biopharma products like vaccines, Canada has delivered significant dollars directly to companies. While this will certainly help bolster the industry—or at least elements of its operation—what’s further needed are investments in fundamental research in health and biomedicine.
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, pictured on Dec. 8, 2021, speaking with reporters on his way to the Liberal party caucus meeting in the West Block.
Over the course of Canada’s late summer election, it was promising to see innovation featured on the agenda of our federal leaders as action is long overdue. We’ve been hearing for too long about how Canada is underperforming on this front, and remedying it is becoming ever more necessary in a ...

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