The National Research Council Canada is the primary national agency of the Government of Canada dedicated to science and technology research and development. It is the largest federal research and development organization in Canada.
Justin Pierre James Trudeau is a Canadian politician who has served as the 23rd prime minister of Canada since 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Party since 2013. Trudeau was the second-youngest prime minister in Canadian history when he took office and the first to be the child of a previous holder of the post,as the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is a regulatory agency that is dedicated to the safeguarding of food,plants,and animals (FPA) in Canada,thus enhancing the health and well-being of Canada's people,environment and economy. The agency is responsible to the Minister of Health.
Dominic A. LeBlanc is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has served as the Minister of Public Safety,Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs since 2023. A member of the Liberal Party,LeBlanc sits as the member of Parliament (MP) for Beauséjour,representing the New Brunswick riding in the House of Commons since 2000. He has held a number of Cabinet portfolios throughout his tenure in government.
Gerald Michael Butts is a Canadian political consultant who served as the Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from November 4,2015 until his resignation on February 18,2019. From 2008 to 2012,he was president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund Canada,part of a global conservation organization. In 2014,Maclean's magazine declared Butts to be the fourteenth most powerful Canadian. As the former Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,Butts was praised as the architect behind the Liberal Party of Canada platform that led to its victory in October 2015 and was one of the most senior staffers in the Office of the Prime Minister,along with Katie Telford.
The Public Health Agency of Canada is an agency of the Government of Canada that is responsible for public health,emergency preparedness and response,and infectious and chronic disease control and prevention.
National Science Advisor to the prime minister was a post that existed from 2004 to 2008. Previously,in 2003,the Privy Council Office published A Framework for the Application of Precaution in Science-based Decision Making about Risk under the government of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. It provided "a lens to assess whether precautionary decision making is in keeping with Canadians' social,environmental and economic values and priorities."
Kirsty Ellen Duncan is a Canadian politician and medical geographer from Ontario,Canada. Duncan has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Toronto riding of Etobicoke North since 2008,and she served as deputy leader of the government in the House of Commons from 2019 to 2021. Duncan has previously served as minister of science and minister of sport and persons with disabilities. She has published a book about her 1998 expedition to uncover the cause of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic.
Katherine E. Gibbs,better known as Katie Gibbs,is the co-founder and executive director of the Canadian advocacy group Evidence for Democracy (E4D).
Frédéric Bastien was a Canadian author,historian,and journalist,best known for the book La Bataille de Londres. Dessous,secrets et coulisses du rapatriement constitutionnel,whose allegations surrounding the 1982 patriation of Canada's constitution caused political controversy in Quebec and led the Supreme Court of Canada to launch an internal probe.
Jane Philpott is a physician,academic administrator,and former Canadian politician who represented the riding of Markham—Stouffville in the House of Commons. She was first elected in the 2015 federal election as a member of the Liberal Party and was appointed to the Cabinet of the 29th Canadian Ministry,headed by Justin Trudeau,on November 4,2015. On March 4,2019,she resigned from her cabinet position as President of the Treasury Board over the SNC-Lavalin affair. On April 2,2019,she and Jody Wilson-Raybould were expelled from the Liberal caucus in the aftermath of the controversy.
Katie Telford is a Canadian political strategist who is the Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She served as Trudeau's chief campaign advisor during his successful campaign in the 2015 election. Following the resignation of Gerald Butts,Telford has been acknowledged as holding the highest-ranking position within the Prime Minister's Office and held critical leadership roles in the 2019 and 2021 Liberal election campaigns. Telford was also influential in Canada's response to the COVID-19 pandemic,and the negotiations of the March 2022 Liberal-NDP supply and confidence agreement.
The premiership of Justin Trudeau began on November 4,2015,when the first Cabinet headed by Justin Trudeau was sworn in by Governor General David Johnston. Trudeau was invited to form the 29th Canadian Ministry and become Prime Minister of Canada following the 2015 election,where Trudeau's Liberal Party won a majority of seats in the House of Commons of Canada,defeating the Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government. In both federal elections of 2019 and 2021,Trudeau was re-elected with minority governments;with his party losing the popular vote twice.
The Institute for Science,Society and Policy (ISSP) is a multi-disciplinary unit at the University of Ottawa,Canada. It has a teaching,research and outreach mandate in the fields of science,technology and society.
Marc Saner is a Full Professor at the University of Ottawa,Canada and Departmental Science Advisor to Natural Resources Canada.
The Government of Canada's Chief Science Advisor is a post in the Canadian government that was created in 2017 by the Justin Trudeau government. The current advisor is Mona Nemer,who is a specialist in the genetics of heart disease and was vice-president of research at the University of Ottawa for 11 years. Dr. Nemer served an initial three-year term from September 2017 to September 2020,and has twice been reappointed to additional two-year terms. Her third appointment is scheduled to end in September 2024.
The COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF) is one of the Government of Canada's early efforts to track the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. An external,dedicated secretariat was established in order to maximize the efficiency of the CITF's work.
Caroline Colijn is a Canadian mathematician and epidemiologist. She holds a Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematics for Evolution,Infection and Public Health at Simon Fraser University (SFU).
The Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) is the program of Innovation,Science and Economic Development Canada designed to support the "Canadian innovation ecosystem," which includes providing "funding to innovative sectors" such as "advanced manufacturing,agri-food,clean technology,clean resources,digital industries,and health and biosciences." The SIF covers all sectors of the Canadian economy and is available to both for-profit and not-for profit organizations.
