In 2019, a coalition of Canadian science groups launched a national non-partisan #VoteScience campaign to send the message that Canadians care about science and to help scientists and all Canadians engage with their local candidates to push for policies that support science and evidence-based decision-making. This campaign also returned in 2021 to advocate for the inclusion of science and evidence-informed decision-making in federal politics. For the 2021 federal election, Science & Policy Exchange worked with local stakeholders like the Quebec Student Union to advocate for additional support for research and science. The #VoteScience campaign was an opportunity to talk about climate change, climate justice and the health crisis in Canada.

The campaign provides users with the opportunity to sign on to voice their support for science and share personal stories about why they will #VoteScience. The portal also contains tools for those wishing to take on an active role in the campaign, including a toolkit on how to effectively engage with candidates by setting up a meeting or hosting events, science-related questions to ask candidates when they come door-knocking, social media engagement tools, support for writing op-eds, and forms for tracking interactions with candidates and identifying champions for science.

A questionnaire was sent to each party to better understand how they will advance science and the use of evidence in government decision-making if they were elected.

This questionnaire has also been distributed by Evidence for Democracy as part of the campaign. The questionnaire supporters were Vote Science, Toronto Science Policy Network,Science & Policy Exchange, Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences, Canadian Association for Neuroscience, Raw Talk Podcast, Optogenetics Working Group, Science & Technology Awareness Network, Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine and Dal Green Chemistry Initiative.