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As a Canadian, this makes me extremely sad. I always saw Canada as progressive ... hopefully the next government will flip this around.
by darxius 13y ago
As a Canadian, this makes me extremely sad. I always saw Canada as progressive ... hopefully the next government will flip this around.
- nickff 13y agoThe next government will flip it around, and use NRC to further THEIR ends. Please forgive my cynicism, but the act of thinking that one political party is "better" than the other is a triumph of optimism over experience.
- tensor 13y agoIt is actually possible for one party to be "better" than another. In this case, we are talking about science, and it is very obvious that limiting science in this way is "worse." Science doesn't respect your political bias.
- nickff 13y agoI was not addressing the possibility of impartial administration of research funding. I was merely stating that, given the record of Canadian (and other) governments, impartiality is unlikely, regardless of party affiliation. I should also state that any budget is, by definition limited, as it is an allocation of scarce resources; so any budget will "limit science".
- drpgq 13y agoMeh, as a Canadian I've always been disappointed in how despite spending a lot of money on government R&D we've never really got much out of it. NRC has always been a bit of a weird beast and NSERC is still around.