As Canada Modernizes Research Funding, Is It Neglecting Indigenous Priorities? – The Tyee

Nisga’a professor Amy Parent says the government should scrap its current report and start over.

Before the federal government announced “a new capstone research funding organization” as part of its 2024 budget, Amy Parent, an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous governance and education at Simon Fraser University, was unaware the government had appointed an advisory panel to “strengthen and modernize” national research funding.

The Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System, assembled by the Health and Innovation, Science and Economic Development ministries in October 2022, released its report in March 2023 with recommendations for how Canada should organize and dole out future science, health, social sciences and humanities research funding.

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