Science & Innovation platforms
Here's what the 2019 Canadian election parties are promising.Conservative
Green
- Invest in scientific research and implement funding recommendations from Canada's Fundamental Science Review.
- Enhance funding for granting councils.
- Establish a portal for all government science to be available in a comprehensible form.
Invest in scientific research and implement the full funding recommendations from Canada’s Fundamental Science Review.
Enhance funding for the granting councils, including the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.
Restore and augment Climate Change and Atmospheric Research (CCAR) funding to NSERC and ensure ongoing funding for the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory, which the Liberals failed to restore after the funding ran out.
Commit to full implementation of Scientific Integrity Policies for all government departments.
Establish a portal where all government science, including the evidence the government uses to make decisions, is available to Canadians in a comprehensible form.
Adopt policies similar to Europe’s “Plan S” to ensure that scientific publications based on publicly-funded research are available in open access journals or on the portal.
Supports NSERC’s Framework on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in scientific research, and commit to strengthening Canadian scientific and engineering communities to include the full participation of equity-seeking groups, including women, visible minorities, Indigenous Peoples, people with diverse gender identities and people with disabilities.
From Election Platform 2019, retrieved 2019-09-22.