Blog

Canada’s 44th federal election has now come and gone.

Blink, and you may have missed the campaign — it was, after all, a mere 36 days. Blink, and you may also miss Canada’s 44th session of Parliament — there is already talk of the 45th election. Blink again, and well, you would be forgiven for mistaking our 44th Parliament for the 43rd — the result was largely the same as the 2019 election. 

COVID-19 has put science in the global spotlight like never before. From immunology, virology and epidemiology, to genome sequencing and mRNA vaccines, the solutions delivered by science have unfolded at a pace unmatched by nearly any other tool at our disposal over the past 18 months. This problem-solving capacity should not be tucked away for the next crisis, but deliberately deployed as an approach to tackling our biggest challenges.