A new House committee re-energizes science and innovation policy debate in Canada

Not only has the committee been studying the challenges in this fast-moving, disruptive global world, but it has also been seeking to better grapple with how the government and the Canadian polity in general should better respond to next-generation public policy matters that will involve all of us.

Liberal MP Lloyd Longfield is chair of the House Science and Technology Committee. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PAUL DUFOUR

July 10, 2023

OTTAWA—Forty years ago, a 1983 report from the Science Council of Canada argued that the creation of a Science and Technology Committee—either in the House of Commons or jointly with the Senate—is essential if Parliament is to make wise and proact...

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