- Created the Canada First Research Excellence Fund in 2014 to disburse $1.5 billion over seven years to post-secondary institutions conducting research in the fields of natural resources and energy, information and communications technology (ICTs), environment and agriculture, health and life sciences, and advanced manufacturing (1, 2)
- Committed $10.9 million per year from existing sources to support programs that encourage youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. (3)
- Committed $222 million over five years, starting in 2015-2016, to support Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics (4)
- Committed $100 million over five years to support the Automotive Supplier Innovation Program (5)
- Committed $30 million over four years to support R&D in the satellite communications sector (6)
- Pledged $1.33 billion to support the Canada Foundation for Innovation to support research infrastructure at universities, colleges, and research hospitals (7)
- Promises to develop an open science initiative to facilitate access to publications resulting from federally-funded research (8)
- Working with partners to develop a digital research infrastructure strategy (9)
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- Will introduce an Innovation Tax Credit worth $40 million to support research and development, boost innovation, and pay for the cost of machinery and equipment in the manufacturing sector. (10, 11)
- Pledges to end all fossil fuel subsidies and transfer those funds to renewable and clean technologies (32, 33)
- Pledges $40 million over four years in the Canadian Space Agency’s Space Technology Development Program to help companies commercialize new technology (13)
- Pledges to champion aerospace innovators and lead trade delegations promoting the Canadian aerospace industry globally (14)
- Will create a four-year fund, worth $160 million, to encourage small-and-medium sized aerospace industries to adopt new technology and increase production (15)
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- Will make significant investments in innovative technologies, sciences, and data collection to create jobs (16)
- Pledges to invest $200 million dollars annually to create sector-specific strategies and to support innovation in clean technologies in the forestry, fisheries, mining, energy, and agricultural sectors (18)
- Promises to work with provinces, territories, universities, and colleges to support emerging clean technology companies to conduct research, commercialize new products, and train workers (19)
- Pledges to work with provinces and territories to make Canada a competitive tax jurisdiction for investment in research and development and manufacturing of clean technologies (20)
- Will consolidate government science for easy access to the public (21)
- Will create a Chief Science Officer to ensure government scientists can speak freely and that government science is easily accessible to the public (23)
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- Will invest in undergraduate research fellowships to support innovation and encourage youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (24)
- Will emphasize funding for environmental innovation and design (25)
- Pledges to create funding for emerging technologies (26)
- Will prioritize the federal government’s scientific capacity in Environment Canada, Fisheries and Oceans, Parks Canada, and Health Canada (27)
- Will restore the Ocean Contaminants & Marine Toxicology Program, renew and increase capacity in the Canadian Coastguard, and reverse cuts to climate adaptation programs (28)
- Pledges to create the position of Chief Scientific Advisor, independent of political control (29)
- Will ensure that government scientists can freely publish their research and speak to the media without being affected by bureaucracy (30)
- Will create an independent National Academy of Sciences to provide lawmakers direct access to science (31)
- Will initiate a review of closure of federal science libraries (32)
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