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Federal Science Expenditures and Personnel: Activities in the Social Sciences and Natural Sciences [ Federal Science Expenditures and Personnel: Activities in the Social Sciences ]

technology park [ research park | science park ]

International Co-ordinating Committee for the Presentation of Science and the Development of Out-of-School Scientific Activities | ICC [Abbr.]

quantification of scientific and technological activities related to development

academic activity

budgeting for science and technology

Federal Act of 6 October 1989 on the Promotion of Extra-Curricular Youth Activities | Youth Development Act [ YDA ]

Federal Act of 30 September 2011 on the Promotion of Extra-Curricular Activities for Children and Adolescents | Extra-Curricular Activities Act [ ECAA ]

On the left-hand side, the science, I mentioned that Gordon McBean led the effort within Environment Canada, but he works with colleagues in Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Fisheries and Oceans in order to develop the overall federal science effort.

Finance has suggested that if we could find a way to create a list of eligible properties that would be designated by federal, provincial or local authorities duly constituted, in order to define the universe—which of course is always a problem for Finance, as they fear open-ended propositions and the scientific tax credit still gives them nightmares, I suspect—they would want a body in the Department of Canadian Heritage that says, yes, this restoration cost is legitimate and is therefore eligible for a certain kind of tax treatment, or that restoration activity is not. ...[+++]

That the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans hold a meeting, before the summer adjournment, to address mounting public and scientific concerns over the immediate threat posed by seismic exploratory work, geotechnical drilling and other exploratory work to be conducted within the marine environment to species listed under the Species at Risk Act and other vulnerable species in the Gros-Cacouna region of the St. Lawrence River; that Department of Fisheries and Oceans officials be invited to that meeting to provide the committee with a complete list of the conditions the Department established for this work, along with the scientifi ...[+++]c basis upon which these conditions are based, and to respond to questions in this regard, and clarify which activities, if any, would have been subject to a federal and environmental assessment under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act prior to its repeal; and that the committee report its conclusions and its recommendations to the House of Commons.

As the committee has requested, we'll be making presentations on the environmental process modernization plan and our response to recent decisions of the Federal Court on science funding.