encourage citizens to engage in science through formal and informal science education, and promote the diffusion of science-based activities, namely in science centres and through other appropriate channels.

(7) The College of Europe, providing postgraduate courses in law, economics, politics, social sciences and humanities with a European dimension, the European University Institute, contributing to the development of European cultural and scientific heritage by means of higher education and research, the European Institute of Public Administration, training national and European civil servants in the field of European integration, the Academy of European Law in Trier, providing university-level training of European law professionals and users, the European Inter-University Centre ...[+++] for Human Rights and Democratisation, providing a European Masters degree and Advanced Internships and other education, training and research services in promotion of human rights and democratisation, the European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education, working to improve the quality of education for pupils with special needs and to foster sustainable European cooperation in this field, and the International Centre for European Training, providing teaching, training and research on issues of Europeanisation, globalisation, federalism, regionalism and the transformation of contemporary social structures, constitute bodies pursuing aims of general European interest.

Based on this bill and what is in the main estimates, this department is responsible for a variety of quasi and independent agencies and tribunals which include the following: the office of the federal chief negotiator, internal trade negotiations; the office of the chief scientist; the Canadian aboriginal economic development program; Canadian Workplace Automation Research Centre; the Defence industry productivity program; the Canada scholarships program; the Information Highway Advisory Council; the National Advisory Board on Science and Technology; the Industrial research assistance program; the remnants of Investment Canada; the Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research Industry and Education, commonly known as CANARIE; th ...[+++]e Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council; the Federal Office of the Regional Development-Quebec, which requires an order in council to pass these responsibilities to yet another minister, the Minister of Finance; regional development in northern Ontario under FEDNOR; the network of centres of excellence, the National Research Council; the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council; the Standards Council of Canada; the Canadian Space Agency; the Communications Research Centre; Statistics Canada; Emergency Preparedness Canada; the Bureau of Competition; the Copyright Board of Canada; and more.

The Crime Scene Index, which is populated by the RCMP's forensic science identification services, the Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto and the Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale in Montreal contain 53,895 profiles found at crime scenes across the country.

In August 2008, the federal government commissioned Service Conseil Canada to undertake a study of the costs and capacities of the three Canadian laboratories: the Laboratoire des sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale, the Centre of Forensic Sciences and the RCMP's Forensic Laboratory Services.

This partnership between good science and good legislation has served forensic science well. It has allowed the Centre of Forensic Sciences to advance our mandate of science for justice in support of the administration of justice and public safety programs for the citizens of Ontario.