The House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) has released its report of pre-budget consultations held this Fall. The full report, titled Cultivating Competitiveness: helping Canadians succeed, is available here:
http://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/FINA/report-27/
We invite you to read this document, as it is instructional on how to position science, research funding, universities and research institutes in the context of the objectives the government wants to reach in the next budget. There is no specific section that focuses on science, but it is rather interwoven into innovation, education, healthcare, job creation, environment and climate change. Science is integrated in all these areas, and scientists can advocate at all these levels – and work with the government to help them achieve common goals. + + +
