A Canadian Precedent Federal government supports the profession Minister of State (Science and Technology) Dr. Gary Goodyear announces federal funding for CMCC on June 5, 2009. Prior to his current position as Canada’s federal Minister of State for Science and Technology, Dr. Goodyear was a practicing chiropractor and graduate of the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College. He was also a lecturer at the school. I 8 • CANADIAN CHIROPRACTOR | JULY/AUGUST 2009 am pleased to have this occasion to share, with you, my thoughts on an important and historic announcement that I had the privilege to make at the Canadian Memo- rial Chiropractic College (CMCC) on June 5, 2009. When I was a practising chiropractor, my top priority was to ensure that patients received the best care possible, and that included making sure that our clinical facilities were up to date and well maintained. We are all part of a successful, caring profession, and Doctors of Chiropractic across Canada have been very generous, with their fi nancial support of the college, to offset tuition fees for students, encourage research and invest in capital projects. Up until this point, however, successive federal governments have not supported important infra- structure work at the college. That all changed this year. FEDERAL PLANNING IN A GLOBAL RECESSION In the last 12 months, Canada has been caught up in a global recession. Although our coun- try is in better shape than other Western nations, and is expected to come out of the econom- ic downturn faster than most, our government recognized that we needed to act to stimulate www.canadianchiropractor.ca Dr. Gary Goodyear, DC, Minister of State (Science and Technology) feature
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