On March 20, 2024, our president Catherine Bibeau-Lorrain was present in parliamentary committee to study Bill 44.
We believe that the Research Funds of Quebec should come under the Ministry of Higher Education and not under the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation.
The QSU was able to defend several positions in its brief to this effect. Our president put forward the following points:
- The importance of ensuring that the Academic Freedom Act and university autonomy are preserved in their research activities ;
- That it is essential to maintain student positions in the governance of the Research Funds of Quebec ;
- Automatic indexation of student grants. For the moment this is not the case, and that's problematic! The importance of non-oriented research within the possible unified Research Funds of Quebec ;
- It is important to rebalance the funding of the different areas of expertise, for example, by granting more funding to the humanities!
Read the brief