Mark Lowey

Analysis: Updated mandate for federal innovation minister shows a Prime Minister preoccupied with COVID-19

Mark Lowey
January 20, 2021

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is much more focused on his government's response to COVID-19 than on science and innovation priorities, judging by the PM's updated mandate letter to the minister of innovation. The letter mentions the world "innovation" once, compared with more than a half-dozen references to COVID-19 and the federal response to the pandemic

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