Canada has convinced 64 international academics, mostly from the United States, to bring their work to Canadian universities through its new talent-attraction program.
The news: Industry minister Mélanie Joly announced the first round of academics coming to Canada as part of the $1.7-billion Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative on Thursday. The program will give these 64 experts—who operate in areas like health, the environment, and AI—$504 million over eight years to bolster institutions like the University of British Columbia, the University of Ottawa, and the University of Toronto.
These new research chairs come from 13 different countries, but an overwhelming 48 of them hail from the United States, including institutions like Cornell, Harvard, Yale, and MIT. Four researchers come from the United Kingdom, two from China, and the remaining countries, like Germany, India, and Japan, each gave up one.
What is their definition of “poach”? They use the term in the headline, but it doesn’t appear in the article. Nothing in the article comes close to being evidence of poaching.
FT did the same thing.
There’s no poaching going on… just trying to be more attractive than China and Germany to academics fleeing the US.
This is the way.