In the innovation alphabet, R comes before D

Canada has seen welcome increases in research talent at its universities, but we need steady, incremental investment in research grants.

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, pictured in this file photo, recently declared, 'we are going to invent the future of vaccines in Canada.' The pandemic pointed out cracks in Canada's system, such as a lack of domestic manufacturing capacity for vaccines, which the federal government is remedying, writes Martha Crago and Philippe Gros.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Martha Crago and Philippe Gros

May 9, 2022

At an April 29 press conference at McGill University, Moderna and the governments of Canada and Quebec announced Montreal would be the location of the biotech company’s new RNA vaccine production facility and associated research laboratory. As a result, said Innovation Minister François-Philippe ...

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