|Articles|February 19, 2016

Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science: An Increasingly Global Approach

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How New Liberal Government Could Impact Health Care in Canada

After ten years of successive minority and/or majority Conservative leadership, Canada is now led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal majority. A key component of the Liberal platform is the creation of a Chief Science Officer position to ensure that “scientific analyses are considered when the government makes decisions”; this renewed focus on evidence-based policy may be helpful to science-based industries across a number of sectors.


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