LOBBYING PROVINCIAL and FEDERAL POLITICIANS to INCREASE GRADUATE STUDENT FUNDING
and FUNDING for BASIC RESEARCH
(with CAUT and OCUFA)
How to Take Action on the 2024 Federal Budget
(Excerpts from CAUT Memorandum 24:11 From: David Robinson, Executive Director)
The federal government will table the federal budget on April 16. CAUT members and staff have been meeting with parliamentarians and government officials, encouraging them to adopt the recommendations contained in the Know More: Invest in Canadian Research, Science and Post- Secondary Education pre-budget consultation document.
One of our recommendations, the proposed changes to the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), is poised to pass into law.
On the call for more research funding, there is a need for extra support from our members as the budget is in the final stages of preparation.
CAUT has joined the Coalition for Canadian Research to call for 2 key items in Budget 2024:
▪ Boosting granting council budgets for core programming by at least ten percent, or $400 million annually for five years.
▪ Increasing the number and value of graduate student scholarships and post-doctoral fellowships by $200 million over 2 years.
SAMPLE EMAIL TEXT
Suggested Subject Line: Help Secure Money for Research in Federal Budget 2024
{Insert Greeting}
CAUT has partnered with a group of stakeholders to create the Coalition for Canadian Research. The coalition is calling on the government to include the following key items in the upcoming federal budget:
▪ Boosting granting council budgets for core programming by at least ten percent, or $400 million annually for five years.
▪ Increasing the number and value of graduate student scholarships and post-doctoral fellowships by $200 million over 2 years.
You can help make this a reality by letting Prime Minister Trudeau know that you support these requests.
The Coalition has built a Budget 2024 campaign website that makes taking action very easy. 3 Steps to Take Action:
1. Click through to the campaign website here–CLICK
2. Click the ‘TakeAction’ button in the top right-hand corner of the site’s homepage.
3. Click the ‘Send a Letter’ button and an email will be generated in your default email application.
Feel free to change the text in the auto-generated email as you see fit. There is no data collection happening as part of this campaign.
If you have any questions, please contact Isaac Cockburn at cockburn@caut.ca.
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About the Coalition for Canadian Research
The Coalition for Canadian Research brings together the combined voices of post‐secondary institutions, research hospitals, leading life sciences companies, university and hospital‐based researchers, university faculty, health charities, student leaders, graduate students, post‐doctoral fellows, and early career researchers across Canada.
Members of the coalition are:
Canadian Association of University Teachers
Association of Faculty of Medicines of Canada
Canadian Alliance of Student Associations
Evidence for Democracy
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
HealthCareCAN
Health Charities Coalition of Canada
Research Canada
Support our Science
U15 Canada
Universities Canada