Paul Dufour, adjunct professor and fellow, University of Ottawa.

Boutique science diplomacy

By Paul Dufour

There you have it. Two speeches on science in Washington in the same week (see box on right) — one by the US President (his second to the National Academy of Sciences celebrating their 150 anniversary) and the other by Canada's junior minister for science and technology (his second to the AAAS forum on S&T policy).