Research Canada: An Alliance for Health Discovery / Recherche Canada : Une alliance pour les découvertes en santé
Registration:
16
of
24
(2015-10-20
to
2015-10-30)
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit
- GOVERNMENT FUNDING: Advocate for increased health research funding
Policies or Program
- Education: Seeking funding through Finance Canada for scholarships in post graduate health sciences
- Health Research-Focus on increasing public investments across the research spectrum of operating grants, people and infrastructure and encourages investments from private and private-not-for profit sectors.
- Industry- advocate for policy to support health research and commercialization
- Infrastructure- advocate for greater investment in health research infrastructure thorough the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
- PRE-BUDGET CONSULTATION
Advocate for changes and enhancements to tax policy to promote health research initiatives
- Science and Technology-advocate for increased investments in science and technology and for the development of comprehensive and sound science and technology policy and policy implementation specifically related to health.
- Taxation and Finance: Advocate to Department of Finance to harmonize Canadian Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit with that of the OECD; to allow companies to apply for a one-time advance on accumulated non-capital losses in lieu of claiming other qualified research expenses; to implement a capital gains exemption on all new direct investments made in 2009 and 2010 to those companies with Canadian headquarters investing in science and technology in Canada; to introduce measures to encourage all Canadians to continue to make charitable contributions in a time of economic hardship.