
Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans
“The Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS or the Policy) is a
joint policy of Canada’s three federal research agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
(CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), or “the Agencies.”