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Comment by Richard Thompson.
17 days ago
I am wondering when someone from the Conservative party will stand up in the House of Commons to address the increasingly divisive topic of DEI. We just completed an election in which Mr. Carney was never questioned about his position on this issue. I believe it was a mistake on the part of the Conservative Party not to press him on this important topic.
Furthermore, the Prime Minister should be asked why Canada is investing $1.7 billion over 13 years as part of its new Talent Strategy to attract highly qualified international researchers and skilled workers—particularly in the technology and innovation sectors—when many of our own best and brightest are being overlooked.
Across the country, talented Canadians are unable to apply for university positions because they have been effectively sidelined by government DEI policies. It is time to hold the Prime Minister accountable and demand transparency regarding how these policies affect opportunities for Canadians. I have addressed several emails to Mr. Poilievre and the Conservative Party on this matter, and I have never received a response.
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Comment by James Collins.
17 days ago
Too bad the government focus is not on actual commercialization after research is complete. That's where the wealth building reward is.
The best policy that Canada has had in research has been its university chairs and SR&ED program (Scientific Research and Experimental Development). These have brought many US / other based companies to Canada, because it stimulated R&D. Basically, it used the scientist's income tax collected and paid it back to the companies so the tax credit was self funded.
This program spreads R&D across multiple industries.
Where Canada has fallen down has always been their commercialization program, where venture capital and SME funding of new products lacks support in Canada during the early stages. So US and offshore cherry pick the innovation.
Comment by P. Robert Dooley.
17 days ago
You mean to say that Canada does not have an abundance of scientific and economic brain trusts?
Would that mean the consensus on climate causation embraced by the Liberals is wrong?
That Carbon is not a harmful pollutant and CO2 is actually the gas of life on Earth.
That the discredited CO2+EGHG Theory and decarbonization/degrowth/NetZero agendas should be abandoned and replaced by sound factual Science and completely end this trillion dollar fraud.
I'm for the highest intelligence and non-activist people not driven by funding but by the desire to make our world a better place.
We need cheap energy, not impedance by political activism to discourage energy use.
We have clean up our vast water supplies from pollution.
We can grow more than we need in food crops.
We can build Canada into a good place to live again.
We have to remove all the roadblocks the Liberals have placed in our way to prosperity. Why do they keep trying to stop us?
Comment by Tzaphnat Paneach.
18 days ago
Sounds great. I was just reading a couple of today's headlines-
'Israeli researchers achieve breakthrough with new lymphoma treatment posting 100% survival rates'
and another..
'Prof. Yifat Merbl, a systems biologist in Weizmann Institute of Science’s Department of Systems Immunology, has been named to Nature’s 10, the journal’s annual list of the ten people who shaped science in 2025'
and 'Israeli start-up pioneers nanoparticle tech to combat metastatic cancer.'
It would sure be nice if Canada could attract researchers of that calibre.
But somehow i don't think Canada's universities are really interested in those researchers.
Comment by Doug Dramstar.
17 days ago
"voicing hope the country would now be able to “bring our people back home.”"
Thats all it is is hope. The brain drain has been ongoing since 1974, with a small abatement in 1986 and a reversal between 2008-2014. 67% of Canada's STEM graduates leave and the result is Canada has per capita the fewest STEM and graduate degrees in the OECD.
The reasons people leave Canada:
a. A focus on appeasing French separatists and FN complainers
b. DEI vice merit based hiring and promotion; often legislated.
c. No money to pay decent wages. US wages on a per capita PPP GDP basis are 50% higher in the US
d. Markedly lower cost of living in the US; 25-36% depending on where you go
e. Far superior healthcare. Everyone in the world and particularly the US knows. the abysmal failure of Canada's communist medicine. Fewest doctors, MRI machines, critical care beds per capita in the OECD
f. Education and endless opportunities.
Sure there's discussions but how many highly skilled, well educated people have actually left the US for Canada? Not many, if any. I left Canada long ago as part of the brain drain. No one in my family even thinks of returning.

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Comment by User Smith.
17 days ago
I'm sure lots of people want to come to Canada for its high taxes , extreme government overreach and expensive food, ridiculous amounts of immigration crushing all of our systems and infrastructure, ridiculous housing costs, with an extremely low quality of life. I'm sure they'll come running here ,give me a break.
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Comment by Red Cooper.
17 days ago
Sure, first the selection criteria, confirm gender, confirm race, confirm alignment with liberal ideology-hired.
Comment by Shaun O'Sullivan.
17 days ago
We don't need a ... Federal government to launch a billion-dollar plan to recruit top international researchers.
We need them to do the job they said they would do if elected and if they can't then get the flurping Sam Hill outta the way and let's get somebody else who will do the job.
Cause the thing about researchers is that the only thing they can guarantee is that they know more and more about less and less.
Comment by Doug J Tyson.
17 days ago
Will any of those recruited be heterosexual, white males? And if so, what about those already in Canada that can't apply for these positions due to 11 years of Liberal insistence on anyone but hetero white males?
Comment by James Collins.
17 days ago
Too bad the government focus is not on actual commercialization after research is complete. That's where the wealth building reward is.
The best policy that Canada has had in research has been its university chairs and SR&ED program (Scientific Research and Experimental Development). These have brought many US / other based companies to Canada, because it stimulated R&D. Basically, it used the scientist's income tax collected and paid it back to the companies so the tax credit was self funded.
This program spreads R&D across multiple industries.
Where Canada has fallen down has always been their commercialization program, where venture capital and SME funding of new products lacks support in Canada during the early stages. So US and offshore cherry pick the innovation.