{"id":2152,"date":"2017-12-03T21:55:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T05:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2017-12-03T21:55:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T05:55:42","slug":"budget-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/2017\/12\/budget-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"#SupportTheReport for Budget 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Give your feedback to the Government of Canada on #YourBudget2018 and support science!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Fundamental Science Review released its report on how to enhance non-governmental research in Canada (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/2017\/08\/naylor-report\/\">more information here<\/a>). The key recommendations included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>improve coordination between federal granting agencies through the creation of a National Advisory Council on Research and Innovation<\/li>\n<li>prioritize equity and diversity in recruitment and hiring<\/li>\n<li>substantially increase federal research funding (by ~30%), with an increased proportion of total funds directed toward independent investigator-initiated research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although the Government of Canada has made progress on implementing some of these recommendations (e.g., by appointing Dr. Mona Nemer as Chief Science Advisor), and despite big campaigns from <a href=\"https:\/\/research.ubc.ca\/about-vpri\/canadas-fundamental-science-review-0\">universities<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/evidencefordemocracy.ca\/en\/rebuildingresearch\">advocacy groups<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sp-exchange.ca\/students4thereport\/\">students<\/a>, there has been no commitment to increase research funding by a meaningful amount.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a crucial time, as the Government nears the end of its public consultation for Budget 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What can you do to support Canadian research?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Complete the Government of Canada\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.budget.gc.ca\/2018\/prebudget-prebudgetaire\/index-en.html\">#YourBudget2018 survey<\/a>.\u00a0 <strong>Survey #2<\/strong> (Economy of Tomorrow) includes direct questions related to research funding. The survey takes only a few minutes to complete and <strong>closes on Dec 15.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Join the conversation about #YourBudget2018 on social media \u2013 you can reach Finance Minister Bill Morneau on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bill_Morneau\">@Bill_Morneau<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/evidencefordemocracy.ca\/en\/content\/have-your-say-budget-2018\">Find social media tips here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Write to your MP to encourage him\/her to support full implementation of the Naylor Report. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/2017\/08\/letter_guidance\/\">Find letter writing tips here.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give your feedback to the Government of Canada on #YourBudget2018 and support science! Earlier this year, the Fundamental Science Review released its report on how to enhance non-governmental research in Canada (more information here). The key recommendations included: improve coordination between federal granting agencies through the creation of a National Advisory Council on Research and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}