Canada is already forgetting lessons of pandemic: UWaterloo president

Interview with UWaterloo President, Vivek Goel, in the Logic highlighting underfunding of research in Canada.

Published September 26, 2023.

OTTAWA — Canada is already forgetting lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic as it lets the country’s research infrastructure rot out, repeating a cycle we went through after the SARS and H1N1 scares, says University of Waterloo president Vivek Goel.

“We’ve had several successive federal budgets without any significant investments in science capacity,” he said in an extended interview with The Logic. The Liberals boosted research funding when they took office, but inflation has eaten all that up, he said. “We’re essentially back to where we were in 2015, before the current government came in, or perhaps even with less funding per capita.”…

Canada is already forgetting lessons of pandemic: UWaterloo president – The Logic

 

What We Are Saying

November 28, 2023
Dr. Chad Gaffield, CEO, U15 Canada quoted in the Science Business article by Richard L. Hudson | Published November 28, 2023 A deal for Canada [...]
November 21, 2023
Dr. Chad Gaffield, CEO, U15 Canada, CSPC Magazine | Published November 2023 Since the mid-20th century, countries around the world have recognized that robust scientific and [...]
October 28, 2023
Contributed to the Globe and Mail by David Naylor and Stephen J. Toope (Published October 27, 2023) David Naylor is president emeritus of the University of [...]