MPs, Senators say Parliament needs its own scientific adviser, especially after COVID

MPs and Senators say, after going through COVID, Parliament needs its own scientific adviser who can brief Canada's federal law-makers on complicated scientific policy, especially in an age of disinformation and global pandemics.
Senator Stan Kutcher, left, Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux, NDP MP Richard Cannings, Liberal MP Valerie Bradford, Libera MP Brendan Hanley, and Conservative MP Stephanie Kusie, pictured Oct. 24, 2023, at the Canadian Science Policy Centre's event on the Hill.

Some MPs and Senators say Parliament needs its own scientific adviser, like the government's scientific adviser, to help them make better-informed science policy-making decisions, and especially after going through the global pandemic.  

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