Montreal to host the first international meeting of chief scientists

By Marie Lambert-Chan. Gathering slated for June 10 as part of the Conference of Montreal. A handful of countries and regions have a chief scientist within their government, including the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand and Israel. In Canada, Quebec is the only province or territory to have created this position. Rémi Quirion was appointed as the Quebec’s first chief scientist in 2011, when he gave up his position as scientific director of the Douglas Institute Research Centre at McGill University to take on the new post. More...