Policy on Sensitive Technology Research and Affiliations of Concern

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Internet of Things: Quantum Sensors Challenge program - National Research Council Canada

Untangling the great policy mess of Canada’s innovation problem

How inadequate funding for research and messy innovation policy ripples out to the economy and society

Quantum science is Canada’s next best investment

Advances in quantum science have immense potential; Canada cannot risk falling behind

If Scientists are Unmuzzled in the Forest, Do They Make a Sound? - Evidence For Democracy

Select federal departments and agencies have rolled out scientific integrity policies since 2018. What are the challenges in implementing scientific integrity policies?

Is scientific inquiry still incompatible with government information control? A quarter-century later

Twenty-six years ago, in response to regionally devastating fisheries collapses in Canada, Hutchings et al. asked “Is scientific inquiry incompatible with government information control?” Now, a quarter-century later, we review how government science advice continues to be influenced by non-science interests, particularly those with a financial stake in the outcome of the advice. We use the example of salmon aquaculture in British Columbia, Canada, to demonstrate how science advice from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) can fail to be impartial, evidence-based, transparent, and independently reviewed—four widely implemented standards of robust science advice. Consequently, DFO's policies are not always supported by the best available science. These observations are particularly important in the context of DFO having struggled to sustainably manage Canada's marine resources, creating socio-economic uncertainty and putting the country's international reputation at risk as it lags behind its peers. We conclude by reiterating Hutchings et al.’s unheeded recommendation for a truly independent fisheries-science advisory body in Canada to be enshrined in the decision-making process.

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