Canada’s Life Sciences Boom: 15 Careers That Are Growing Right Now

Canada’s life sciences sector is scaling faster than its talent pipeline can keep up with. These are the roles employers are actively competing for — with salary ranges, hiring hotspots, and the Canadian-specific context you won’t find in a global guide.

Canada’s life sciences sector doesn’t make headlines the way AI or green energy does — but by almost every employment metric, it’s one of the most consequential stories in the Canadian economy right now. More than 3,800 life sciences companies operate in Canada. Ontario’s strategy targets 85,000 high-value jobs by 2030. Quebec’s biomanufacturing corridor is expanding. British Columbia’s cell and gene therapy cluster is drawing global investment. And the federal government has committed over $2 billion since 2020 to rebuild domestic manufacturing capacity that was allowed to erode over three decades.

The result is a sector that is simultaneously hiring across every function — from lab bench to regulatory filing to commercial launch — and struggling to find enough qualified people to do it. According to Agilus’s 2026 Life Sciences hiring analysis, the competition for validation, quality, and bioprocessing talent is ‘unlike anything we’ve seen in years.’ Roles are going unfilled not because employers aren’t trying, but because the supply of specialized professionals hasn’t kept pace with how fast the sector has grown.

This guide covers 15 careers across five categories — Research & Discovery, Manufacturing & Quality, Clinical & Regulatory, Digital & AI, and Commercial & Strategy — with salary ranges, hiring hotspots, and the Canada-specific context that makes this market different from what you’d read in a US-focused guide.

Source: Invest in Canada: Biomanufacturing & Life Sciences | Ontario Life Sciences Strategy Phase 2 | BIOTECanada: Biotech Jobs in Canada 2025

Why Canada’s Life Sciences Sector Is Different From What You’d Read About in a Global Report

Most global life sciences career guides are written about the US market, with footnotes about Europe. Canada gets a sentence. That’s a problem for employers and professionals operating here, because the Canadian market has several genuinely distinctive characteristics that shape how careers are built and how hiring works.

Health Canada is not the FDA

This matters more than it sounds. Regulatory affairs professionals who list only FDA experience need to demonstrate clearly how they plan to address the Health Canada gap. Clinical trial applications in Canada are structurally different from US INDs. Drug submission formats, review timelines, and guidance documents all differ. Employers hiring for regulatory roles in Canada weight Health Canada-specific experience significantly — and candidates who bridge both jurisdictions command a meaningful premium.

The provincial reimbursement system is uniquely complex

Canada has no single national drug formulary. Each province — OHIP+ in Ontario, BC PharmaCare, RAMQ in Quebec, and others — operates independently. Market access specialists who understand pan-Canadian reimbursement negotiations, particularly through the Canadian Drug Agency (formerly CADTH), are in short supply relative to demand. This is one of the most consistently understaffed specializations in Canadian life sciences.

Quebec requires French — and that narrows the pool

Life sciences is one of Quebec’s strongest sectors: aerospace, AI, and pharma converge in Montreal in ways that create genuine opportunity. But for roles requiring bilingualism — clinical research coordinators, medical science liaisons, regulatory affairs specialists — the pool of qualified bilingual professionals is meaningfully smaller than the overall sector headcount suggests. It extends timelines and creates a sustained bilingual premium for those who have it.

The sector is scaling faster than the training pipeline

Ontario and Quebec are simultaneously expanding biomanufacturing facilities, vaccine R&D infrastructure, and cell and gene therapy clusters. The people needed to staff those facilities — process development scientists, validation engineers, GMP manufacturing associates — take years to train. BIOTECanada projects 15,000–16,000 new biomanufacturing jobs in the next five years. The training pipeline does not currently produce those numbers. That gap is the employment opportunity.

Quick Reference: All 15 Careers at a Glance

Digital & AI in Life Sciences — Careers #1, #5, #8

AI is reshaping life sciences faster than almost any other sector — not because the science is simpler, but because the data volumes involved make computational approaches uniquely powerful. Drug discovery, clinical trial design, genomics analysis, and real-world evidence all benefit from machine learning in ways that are already producing measurable results. The professionals who bridge deep biology with computational fluency are among the most sought-after in the sector.

1. Bioinformatics Scientist

💰 Typical salary: $85K–$145K (senior specialists to $175K+)

Bioinformatics scientists develop the tools, algorithms, and analytical pipelines needed to make sense of genomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics data. As next-generation sequencing becomes standard in research and clinical settings, the professionals who can process and interpret that data — and translate it into biological insight — are consistently in short supply.

→ Why Canada: Canada’s genomics research investment is substantial. The Genome Canada network, McGill’s computational biology programs, and Vancouver’s STEMCELL Technologies all create both research demand and talent pipeline. The role sits at the exact intersection of biology and computation that most hiring managers say they cannot find enough of.

📍 Where it’s hiring: Montreal (Mila adjacency drives demand), Vancouver (STEMCELL, Precision BioSciences), Toronto (hospital network research programs). Strong remote component for established professionals.

✓ Key skills: Python, R, GATK, Nextflow, PyMOL, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), statistical genomics, NGS data analysis.

5. AI / ML Scientist — Drug Discovery

💰 Typical salary: $100K–$180K depending on seniority

AI drug discovery is no longer experimental — it’s operational. Companies like Recursion, AbCellera, and a growing cluster of Montreal and Toronto biotechs are using machine learning to identify drug candidates, predict molecular behavior, and design clinical trials faster and more cheaply than traditional approaches allow. The scientists who build and run these systems combine deep biological domain knowledge with production-grade ML engineering capability.

→ Why Canada: Montreal’s unique position — the Mila AI institute sits minutes from major pharmaceutical and biotech campuses — creates a talent and collaboration ecosystem for this role that doesn’t exist at the same density elsewhere in Canada. Global pharma companies are establishing AI research labs in Montreal specifically to access this combination.

📍 Where it’s hiring: Montreal (#1 globally competitive location for this role in Canada), Toronto (growing fast), Vancouver (emerging). Remote possible at senior levels.

✓ Key skills: PyTorch, TensorFlow, structural biology, cheminformatics, generative AI for molecular design, MLOps for biological applications.

8. Biostatistician

💰 Typical salary: $90K–$150K; clinical trial specialists to $175K

Every clinical trial has a biostatistician behind it — designing the analysis plan, determining sample sizes, handling the statistical modeling that makes trial data interpretable by regulators. As AI is integrated into trial design and real-world evidence analysis, biostatisticians with computational fluency are commanding a growing premium over those with traditional statistical skills alone.

→ Why Canada: Canada ranks #1 in clinical trial productivity among G7 nations. That productivity generates sustained demand for biostatisticians across the country’s CRO community, academic hospitals, and pharmaceutical sponsors. Health Canada’s statistical review processes have their own specific requirements that create additional demand for professionals familiar with the Canadian regulatory environment.

📍 Where it’s hiring: Toronto (hospital networks, CROs), Montreal (pharmaceutical sponsors), Vancouver (growing biotech cluster). Remote increasingly common at mid-senior levels.

✓ Key skills: SAS, R, Python, mixed-effects models, Bayesian methods, Veeva integration, experience with Health Canada submission standards.

Manufacturing & Quality — Careers #2, #6, #11

The biomanufacturing expansion is Canada’s most acute talent shortage in life sciences. Agilus’s 2026 analysis describes the competition for validation, quality, and bioprocessing talent as unprecedented. Every new facility needs people who understand Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) environments from the inside — and GMP experience cannot be taught quickly. It accumulates through years of work in compliant environments, which means supply grows slowly even when demand accelerates.

2. Process Development Scientist

💰 Typical salary: $80K–$130K; senior roles to $155K

Process development scientists design and optimize the manufacturing processes that take a drug candidate from research-scale experiments to consistent, scalable production. For biologics, vaccines, and cell therapies — the fastest-growing product categories in Canadian life sciences — process development is the critical bottleneck between scientific discovery and manufacturing reality.

→ Why Canada: Canada’s commitment to rebuilding domestic biomanufacturing capacity has created a wave of facility construction and scale-up projects across Ontario and Quebec. The National Research Council’s Biologics Manufacturing Centre in Montreal, Resilience’s Mississauga facility, and multiple Ontario-based CDMOs are all competing for process development professionals who understand mammalian cell culture, upstream/downstream processing, and tech transfer.

📍 Where it’s hiring: Mississauga and the Greater Toronto Area (highest concentration), Montreal (NRC, Novavax), Vancouver (growing). GMP-intensive roles are site-specific — not remote.

✓ Key skills: Cell culture, bioreactor operation, downstream processing (chromatography, filtration), tech transfer, GMP documentation, upstream/downstream development.

6. Quality Assurance (QA) Manager

💰 Typical salary: $80K–$140K; Quality Directors to $175K

Quality assurance managers own the systems that ensure every product leaving a manufacturing facility meets regulatory standards. In GMP environments — biologics, vaccines, gene therapies — this is not an oversight role. It is the function that determines whether a batch can be released and whether a facility stays open. Every new GMP facility needs a complete quality team before it can produce anything.

→ Why Canada: Canada’s biomanufacturing expansion requires GMP-compliant quality systems from day one of facility operation. The shortage of experienced QA professionals — particularly those with biologics or advanced therapy experience — is one of the most acute constraints on how quickly new facilities can become operational. Organizations are actively recruiting internationally to close this gap.

📍 Where it’s hiring: Ontario (Mississauga, Brampton, Toronto) leads nationally. Quebec (Montreal, Laval, Longueuil) is the second major hub. Roles are site-specific.

✓ Key skills: GMP systems, quality management systems (QMS), deviation management, CAPA, regulatory inspections (Health Canada, FDA, EMA), batch record review.

11. Validation Engineer

💰 Typical salary: $80K–$130K; senior validation specialists to $150K

Validation engineers demonstrate — through documented evidence — that manufacturing processes, equipment, and systems consistently produce results meeting predetermined specifications. In pharmaceutical and biomanufacturing contexts, validation is regulatory requirement, not best practice. Without it, nothing ships. The commissioning, qualification, and validation (CQV) cycle for a new biologics facility can take 12–18 months and requires sustained specialized expertise throughout.

→ Why Canada: Ontario and Quebec’s biomanufacturing expansion has created a wave of new facility builds and upgrades, each requiring full CQV programs. The shortage of experienced validation engineers — particularly those with computer system validation (CSV) and data integrity expertise — is creating significant project delays at multiple Canadian facilities.

📍 Where it’s hiring: Ontario biomanufacturing corridor (Mississauga, Brampton, Burlington, Guelph). Quebec (Montreal, Laval). Roles are site-specific and on-site intensive.

✓ Key skills: GMP validation, IQ/OQ/PQ protocols, computer system validation (CSV), 21 CFR Part 11, data integrity, equipment qualification, process validation.

Clinical & Regulatory — Careers #3, #4, #13

Canada’s clinical trial productivity is the strongest in the G7 on a per-capita basis. Invest in Canada notes that Health Canada’s regulatory environment makes trials faster and more flexible than in many comparable jurisdictions. That combination — strong scientific infrastructure and an efficient regulatory pathway — keeps clinical and regulatory career demand consistently high regardless of broader pharma hiring cycles.

3. Regulatory Affairs Specialist

💰 Typical salary: $75K–$115K; Senior/Director level $115K–$160K

Regulatory affairs specialists are the professionals who navigate the path from drug candidate to approved product. They prepare submissions, interpret regulatory guidance, manage Health Canada interactions, and develop the regulatory strategies that determine how quickly a company can bring its products to patients. The role has expanded significantly as product categories (cell therapies, gene therapies, combination products) have grown more complex.

→ Why Canada: Health Canada expertise is not interchangeable with FDA knowledge. Canadian regulatory affairs specialists who understand the Food and Drugs Act, Health Canada submission formats, and the Therapeutic Products Directorate’s specific requirements are genuinely scarce — and in increasing demand as Canada’s sector grows and US regulatory disruption (significant FDA staff losses in 2025–2026) has made Health Canada pathways more attractive to international companies.

📍 Where it’s hiring: Mississauga and Greater Toronto Area (largest concentration in Canada), Montreal (bilingual premium for Quebec-based companies), Vancouver (growing biotech presence). Remote increasingly common at mid-senior levels.

✓ Key skills: Health Canada submissions (NDSs, SNDSs, CTAs), CMC regulatory, biologics regulation, ICH guidelines, post-market compliance, Veeva Vault.

4. Clinical Research Associate (CRA)

💰 Typical salary: $65K–$95K; senior/lead CRAs to $110K+

Clinical research associates monitor clinical trials — visiting investigator sites, reviewing source data, ensuring protocol compliance, and serving as the link between sponsors and the clinical sites where trials actually run. The role is high-travel in traditional models and increasingly hybrid as remote monitoring has become established practice. CRAs are the operational backbone of clinical drug development.

→ Why Canada: Canada’s clinical trial productivity advantage creates sustained demand. CROs operating in Canada — ICON, Syneos, Parexel, PRA — all maintain Canadian CRA teams. The backlog of clinical programs resumed or accelerated post-pandemic has kept demand elevated through 2026. Therapeutic-area specialization (oncology, immunology, neurology) commands a clear premium.

📍 Where it’s hiring: National role — CRAs travel to trial sites across Canada. Home-based with significant travel to Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary hospital networks.

✓ Key skills: GCP certification, clinical monitoring, site management, CTMS (Medidata, Veeva), therapeutic area knowledge, Health Canada CTA familiarity.

13. Clinical Data Manager

💰 Typical salary: $75K–$105K; senior CDMs to $125K

Clinical data managers design the systems that capture, clean, and validate the data generated by clinical trials. As data volumes grow and AI-enabled data monitoring becomes standard, the role has evolved from database programming toward data governance, quality oversight, and the integration of external data sources (wearables, EHRs, real-world data) into clinical trial datasets.

→ Why Canada: The growth of decentralized clinical trials — accelerated significantly during the pandemic and now standard practice — has made data management more complex and more critical. Remote patient monitoring generates new data types that require new handling approaches. Canadian CDMs who understand Health Canada data standards as well as CDISC formats are finding strong remote opportunities across the global CRO market.

📍 Where it’s hiring: Toronto and Montreal CRO offices (ICON, Syneos, Alimentiv); increasingly remote for experienced professionals. National role with good remote options.

✓ Key skills: CDISC (CDASH, SDTM, ADaM), clinical database systems (Medidata Rave, Oracle), risk-based monitoring, electronic data capture, data quality review.

Research & Discovery — Careers #9, #14

The research function in Canadian life sciences has been reshaped by two converging forces: the maturation of cell and gene therapy as a commercial field, and the integration of computational biology into what was once purely experimental work. The most competitive candidates in 2026 are those who can move fluidly between wet lab and computational environments — a combination that programs haven’t historically trained for and that organizations are now paying significant premiums to find.

9. Cell & Gene Therapy Specialist

💰 Typical salary: $90K–$135K; senior specialists to $165K

Cell and gene therapy has moved from experimental medicine to commercial reality faster than most predicted. CAR-T therapies are approved and in clinical use. Gene editing platforms are advancing through trials. The scientists who design, produce, and quality-control these therapies work at the most technically demanding frontier in modern biomedicine — and the supply of qualified professionals with hands-on experience remains far below demand.

→ Why Canada: Canada has made cell and gene therapy a strategic national priority. CCRM and its subsidiary OmniaBio in Ontario, the Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) in Vancouver, and Quebec’s emerging cluster all represent significant infrastructure investment in this space. BIOTECanada identifies this as one of the disciplines with the highest demand-to-supply imbalance in Canadian biotech.

📍 Where it’s hiring: Toronto and Mississauga (CCRM/OmniaBio, University Health Network), Vancouver (CDRD, Zymeworks), Montreal (growing cell therapy cluster). Site-specific roles requiring on-site presence.

✓ Key skills: Viral vector production (lentivirus, AAV), cell culture, flow cytometry, CAR-T manufacturing, gene editing (CRISPR/Cas9), GMP cell therapy production.

14. Computational Biologist

💰 Typical salary: $85K–$130K; senior computational biologists to $160K

Computational biologists use mathematical and statistical models to understand biological systems — from protein folding to gene regulatory networks to population-level genomics. The boundary between computational biology and bioinformatics is porous; the distinction usually lies in the depth of original method development (computational biology) versus the application of established tools to biological datasets (bioinformatics). Both are in demand; computational biologists with novel method development experience command the higher end of the range.

→ Why Canada: Montreal’s unique combination of Mila (world-class AI research) and a strong pharmaceutical and genomics presence has created a demand for computational biologists that is genuinely global in its competitive intensity. Firms like Valence Discovery, Envision Genomics, and multiple Montreal-based AI drug discovery companies are all competing for the same pool of researchers who can bridge advanced computation and biological insight.

📍 Where it’s hiring: Montreal (most competitive globally in Canada for this role), Toronto (hospital-affiliated research programs), Vancouver (genomics and precision medicine focus).

✓ Key skills: Python, R, machine learning, structural bioinformatics, systems biology, single-cell RNA sequencing, protein language models, AlphaFold workflows.

Commercial & Strategy — Careers #7, #10, #12, #15

Commercial life sciences roles are frequently underrepresented in career guides that lead with science. That’s a mistake. As more Canadian companies move products toward market — and as global companies expand Canadian commercial operations — the demand for professionals who bridge clinical evidence and payer or physician decision-making is growing fast. These roles require scientific depth combined with communication, strategic, and relationship management skills that take years to develop.

7. Medical Science Liaison (MSL)

💰 Typical salary: $110K–$145K base; total compensation to $165K+

Medical science liaisons are field-based scientific experts who engage with physicians, researchers, and healthcare institutions on behalf of pharmaceutical and biotech companies. They translate clinical data into meaningful conversations with healthcare professionals, capture medical insights from the field, and support evidence-based medicine in ways that commercial sales functions cannot. The role requires an advanced scientific degree, strong communication skills, and the credibility to have peer-level conversations with clinicians.

→ Why Canada: As the Canadian pharmaceutical market matures and more specialized therapies reach patients, the MSL function has expanded significantly. Oncology, immunology, and rare disease MSLs are among the highest-demand profiles in Canadian life sciences. Bilingual MSLs covering Quebec are particularly scarce — the combination of scientific credentials, clinical communication skills, and French fluency creates a very narrow pool.

📍 Where it’s hiring: National role — MSLs are field-based and cover defined geographic territories. Major territories centre on Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary hospital networks.

✓ Key skills: Advanced scientific/clinical degree (PhD, PharmD, MD preferred), clinical communication, scientific presentation, Health Canada approved indication knowledge, CRM tools.

10. Medical Affairs Manager / Director

💰 Typical salary: $130K–$165K; Directors to $190K+

Medical affairs sits between clinical development and commercial launch — managing the scientific platform that supports a product throughout its lifecycle. Medical affairs professionals develop publication strategies, manage advisory boards, oversee MSL teams, support investigator-initiated trials, and serve as the scientific conscience of the commercial organization. At the director level, medical affairs is increasingly a board-room function, not just a field function.

→ Why Canada: As Canadian biotech companies mature from early-stage research organizations into commercial entities, the medical affairs function grows with them. Global companies operating in Canada are expanding local medical affairs teams to manage the specific requirements of the Canadian healthcare system — provincial reimbursement negotiations, Health Canada post-market commitments, and the physician engagement landscape that differs meaningfully from the US.

📍 Where it’s hiring: Mississauga and Greater Toronto Area (largest pharma commercial hub in Canada), Montreal (bilingual market), Vancouver. Significant remote component possible at senior levels.

✓ Key skills: Medical strategy, publication planning, advisory board management, MSL leadership, health economics integration, cross-functional collaboration with regulatory and commercial.

12. Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR) Specialist

💰 Typical salary: $85K–$120K; senior HEOR to $145K+

HEOR specialists build the economic and evidence frameworks that support drug reimbursement decisions. In Canada, where each province independently assesses and lists drugs, this work is particularly complex — and particularly consequential. A strong HEOR dossier supporting a Canadian Drug Agency review can be the difference between national reimbursement and limited market access. The professionals who can construct that dossier and navigate the Canadian reimbursement pathway are consistently in demand.

→ Why Canada: Canada’s provincial formulary system — the most fragmented among comparable healthcare systems — creates a sustained professional services demand for HEOR expertise. The Canadian Drug Agency’s pan-Canadian process has streamlined some of the coordination, but the complexity of building evidence packages that satisfy multiple provincial payer decision-makers simultaneously keeps this function well-staffed at growing organizations.

📍 Where it’s hiring: Toronto (largest HEOR consulting and pharma hub), Ottawa (proximity to federal health policy), Montreal (French-language market access). Some remote for consulting roles.

✓ Key skills: Health economics modeling, real-world evidence analysis, budget impact models, Canadian Drug Agency (CDA) submission process, provincial formulary navigation, statistical software.

15. Market Access Specialist

💰 Typical salary: $90K–$130K; senior Market Access to $155K+

Market access specialists develop and execute the strategies that determine whether a drug gets reimbursed — by which provinces, at what price, for which patient populations. The role requires fluency in the evidence requirements of provincial drug plans, an understanding of health technology assessment (HTA) processes, and the relationship management skills to navigate government and payer institutions that are very different from physician audiences.

→ Why Canada: Every pharmaceutical and biotech company with a Canadian commercial operation needs market access expertise — and the most valuable profiles are those who have navigated the Canadian Drug Agency process, negotiated with multiple provincial formulary committees, and can build the real-world evidence programs that support listing renewals. Canadian-specific expertise is not easily substituted with US or European market access experience.

📍 Where it’s hiring: Toronto (largest market access function concentration), Ottawa (policy proximity), Montreal (French-language provincial access strategy). Significant government interaction requires Canadian presence.

✓ Key skills: HTA methodology, CDA (CADTH) common drug review process, payer negotiation, provincial formulary strategy, managed entry agreements, real-world evidence strategy.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Canadian life sciences hiring growing or contracting in 2026?

Growing — but unevenly. Canada’s biomanufacturing expansion, federal government investment of over $2 billion since 2020, and Ontario’s strategy targeting 85,000 jobs by 2030 are all driving sustained net hiring growth. The nuance is that this growth is concentrated in specific functions: manufacturing and quality (particularly GMP-environment roles), regulatory affairs with Health Canada expertise, AI-integrated drug discovery, and commercial roles as more products approach market. Entry-level research positions remain competitive. Specialized mid-to-senior roles are the clearest candidates’ market in the sector.

What life sciences roles are hardest to fill in Canada right now?

According to Agilus’s 2026 analysis, the hardest roles to fill are GMP validation engineers, QA specialists with biologics experience, process development scientists with upstream and downstream experience, and regulatory affairs specialists with Health Canada submission history. Bilingual professionals across any of these disciplines face additional scarcity in Quebec. Computational biologists and AI drug discovery scientists are extremely scarce at the senior level in any Canadian city.

How does working in Canadian life sciences differ from the US?

The most important difference is regulatory: Health Canada is not the FDA, and experience with one does not automatically transfer to the other. Clinical trial applications in Canada are structured differently from US INDs. Drug submission formats, review timelines, and post-market requirements all have Canadian-specific requirements. Market access is more complex in Canada because there is no single national formulary — each province independently assesses and lists drugs. Bilingual requirements in Quebec apply to life sciences roles just as they do in other professional fields, creating a meaningful additional constraint on the qualified talent pool for Quebec-based positions.

What is the salary range for life sciences professionals in Canada?

Ranges vary significantly by function and seniority. Clinical research associates typically earn $65,000–$110,000. Regulatory affairs specialists range from $75,000 to $160,000 depending on seniority and Health Canada expertise. Bioinformaticians and computational biologists earn $85,000–$160,000+. Medical science liaisons earn $110,000–$165,000 in total compensation. Medical affairs directors command $130,000–$190,000+. Market access and HEOR specialists typically earn $85,000–$155,000 at mid-to-senior levels. GMP manufacturing and quality roles (QA manager, validation engineer) range from $80,000–$175,000 depending on the product category and facility complexity.

Which Canadian city is best for a life sciences career?

It depends on the function. Toronto and the surrounding Greater Toronto Area (particularly Mississauga) is Canada’s largest commercial life sciences hub — home to the Canadian headquarters of most major pharmaceutical companies and the largest concentration of CRO operations. Montreal is Canada’s strongest market for AI drug discovery (due to Mila), biomanufacturing research (National Research Council Biologics Centre, Novavax), and aerospace-adjacent biomedical engineering. Vancouver is a growing cell and gene therapy hub and has a strong genomics research community anchored by STEMCELL Technologies and CDRD. Ottawa is relevant for regulatory affairs roles requiring proximity to Health Canada.

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Sources & References

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2. Invest in Canada: Biomanufacturing and Life Sciences in Canada (2026)
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