Universities, an investment in our future

By Robert Proulx. Universities are incubators of scientific and social innovation, and important agents of progress for Canadian society. In 2014, according to Universities Canada, the country’s 97 universities invested more than $12-billion in research and development, accounting for 40 percent of all R&D in Canada. However, barely $2.3-billion came from the major federal agencies that fund research (SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR), whose budgets in constant dollars have shrunk by six percent since 2007. More...