Canada on Tuesday launched a $1.7 billion program to recruit leading global researchers, part of the effort to poach intellectual talent looking to leave the United States because of President Donald Trump’s policies.

Top Canadian institutions — including the country’s largest hospital network and the University of Toronto — have previously announced multimillion dollar strategies to recruit experts whose work has been impacted by Trump’s broad cuts to scientific research.

The federal government has now joined this effort, in what it called “one of the largest recruitment programs of its kind globally.”

The plan is not strictly catered to U.S.-based researchers impacted by Trump.

A statement from the ministries of industry and health says the goal is “to attract and support more than 1

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