The applications sent to Canada’s national-security agencies for assessment – under tightened rules to safeguard intellectual property from authoritarian governments such as China – were deemed to pose an unacceptable risk
Roughly two-thirds of the research-grant applications sent to Canada’s national-security agencies for assessment under tightened rules to safeguard intellectual property from authoritarian governments were deemed to pose an unacceptable risk and denied funding.
The rules for research partnerships were created partly to respond to a changing global security environment marked by the rise ofCanada’s national spy service, CSIS, has amplified its warnings to universities and private-sector research facilities in recent years about the potential risks of collaborations with foreign partners.
NSERC said the success rate for applicants overall remains the same as it was before the new rules were introduced. All of the applications that were sent for national-security review took more than 24 weeks to be evaluated, NSERC said, which is longer than permitted under NSERC’s service standards. Since the new rules were enacted about three-quarters of all funding applications under the alliance grants and alliance missions programs have included a completed security risk-assessment form, NSERC said. Projects without an outside partner organization don’t require a security assessment.
She said the concerns they’ve heard have mainly been about decision delays for those projects referred for further evaluation. She said she expects those delays will be ironed out in future.
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