The Professional Institute of the Public Service hosted the 2nd Science Policy Symposium held May 12-14th, 2010 in Lac-Leamy, Gatineau, Québec.
The inaugural Symposium, held in September 2007 was the first science policy conference of its kind in Canada. In 2010 the event brought together more than 200 scientists and science-policy analysts, senior officials, and experts from across Canada and around the world to identify and discuss the key issues facing science policy in Canada.
The keynote session, an encounter of ideas between David Suzuki and Preston Manning, issued a clarion call for science in public policy in Canada. Former UN ambassador Stephen Lewis electrified participants with a passionate and urgent plea for public science in the service of human development.
Here are some of the many other interesting presentations from the event:
Impact
through Integration
– Dr. Christiane Deslauriers
Death of Evidence: Birth of a Movement?
Publish Date: 20-JUL-2012 02:05 PM
On July 10th, well over one thousand scientists and their supporters, many wearing their lab coats, marched through the streets of Ottawa and on to Parliament Hill to send a strong message to the federal government.
