🇨🇦Canada allocated over C$500 million across eight years to recruit 64 researchers, including 48 from U.S. universities.

Canadian Industry Minister Mélanie Joly announced that Canada would recruit 64 scholars and provide more than C$500 million in funding over eight years. The funding will support their work at multiple Canadian universities.

Of the 64 researchers, 48 are moving from universities in the United States. The institutions identified in the report include Harvard University, Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The researchers’ fields include medicine, engineering and climate science. The source described the recruitment initiative in the context of deteriorating relations between Canada and the United States.