Government Officials Visit Carleton Research and Teaching Facilities

Carleton University’s cutting-edge research and teaching facilities were showcased to a group of senior government officials during the Deputy Ministers Science Committee (DMSC) retreat on July 16.

Attendees at the annual gathering of more than a dozen leaders from science-based government departments and agencies visited the Northern Nomad tiny house and Chemistry Superlab.

They were accompanied on the early-afternoon tours by Carleton President Benoit-Antoine Bacon, Vice-President (Research and International) Rafik Goubran and Faculty of Science Dean Chuck Macdonald.

President Bacon greeted Kirsty Duncan, Canada’s Minister of Science and Sport, when she arrived in the morning for part of the retreat’s agenda, which included sessions on science policy and infrastructure.

Committee members include Canadian Food Inspection Agency president Siddika Mithani, Canadian Space Agency president Sylvain Laporte, National Research Council president Iain Stewart, Public Health Agency of Canada president Tina Namiesniowski and federal chief science advisor Mona Nemer, as well as deputy ministers or associate deputy ministers from several government departments, among them Environment and Climate Change Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Transport Canada, and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.