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.
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.
The Privy Council Office is the central agency of the Government of Canada which acts as the secretariat to the Cabinet of Canada –a committee of the King's Privy Council for Canada –and provides non-partisan advice and support to the Canadian ministry,as well as leadership,coordination,and support to the departments and agencies of 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 of 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. Philpott 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,Philpott 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 both expelled from the Liberal caucus in the aftermath of the controversy.
Carla Dawn Qualtrough is a Canadian politician and former Paralympic swimmer who has served as the Minister of Sport and Physical Activity since July 2023. A member of the Liberal Party,Qualtrough has represented the riding of Delta in the House of Commons since 2015.
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 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.
Evidence for Democracy (E4D) is a non-partisan Canadian non-profit organization which advocates for evidence-based policy-making in the government. It was co-founded by Katie Gibbs and Scott Findlay in 2012.
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).
Several policies regarding interior and domestic issues in Canada were planned and adopted by the Canadian Cabinet,chaired by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,following the October 19,2015 election of the Liberal Party to a majority of seats in the House of Commons,such as social and environmental policies.
