Canadian researchers are being asked politically charged questions when trying to secure U.S. grants

Further counter-productive chill:

Academic researchers are used to filing out forms when applying for grants, but Canadian scholars have expressed shock over a new questionnaire they are receiving when applying for funding issued in part of wholly by the U.S. government.”Can you confirm that this is no DEI project or DEI elements of the project?” asks one question, with an accompanying link to U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order to nix funding from government programs dealing with diversity, equity and inclusion.”Can you confirm this is not a climate or “environmental justice” project or include such elements?” asks another.Yet another asks if a project “defends women from gender ideology” — another reference to a Trump executive order.Peter McInnis, President of Canadian Association of University Teachers, which represents 72,000 staff across more than 125 institutions, says they’ve been receiving messages about what he says is “most unusual, not only just to receive a questionnaire at all, but this one was clearly screening for ideological questions.”

It is unclear how many Canadian scholars received the questionnaire, or how many people’s work depends on funding from granting bodies associated with the U.S. government, but most tend to be in the fields of health, science, agriculture and climate researchFor example, the U.S.-based National Institute of Health last year poured about $57 million into projects involving Canadian researchers, according to McInnis.

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