Budget 2018: new research money from Canadian federal government

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Brooke Struck

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Feb 28, 2018, 11:12:40 AM2/28/18

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Hello all,

The Canadian federal government released its annual budget yesterday. There was a huge increase in spending for research—especially fundamental research. These injections follow up on the Naylor report, which reviewed the state of research funding in Canada. Here’s a short timeline to situate this new development:

October 2015 Trudeau government elected

November 2015 Kirsty Duncan named Minister of Science, with a mandate to shore up “support for fundamental research”

March 2016 Federal budget injects $90 million (ongoing annual basis) into research funding council budget, as stopgap measure

June 2016 Naylor panel convened to study the question of research funding in Canada

March 2017 Budget 2017 released without major new investments in fundamental research

April 2017 Naylor report released

You can find my analysis here: http://www.sciencemetrics.org/budget-2018-the-fundamental-question-of-research-funding/

Best wishes,

Brooke

Brooke Struck, Ph.D.

Senior Policy Officer | Spécialiste des politiques

Science-Metrix