Sorry to go off topic, but, I see you have shaved, and had a sex change, you look great.
Sorry to interrupt the flirting, but I wanted to put in my two cents on science and science funding... that's probably what its worth.
In Canada, there are a few main avenues of research:
First there is the NSERC, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, which is chaired by scientists and receives money from the national government's science fund. IE, they are given money by royal decree. Scientists of all walks of life are given money, from Undergrads to senior research scientists, working in industry and otherwise so long as the applications are novel. The grantees are selected by groups generally made up of your friendly university professors, ask around some of them are probably recently returned. The more publicity you can generate, the happier NSERC is. Take a look at my research website, I link to it in my public profile. The NSERC logo at the bottom of my page must be there, because I receive funds from them.
Next, there is CIAR. Or the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. The aim of these awards are to take pressure off the teaching loads of university professors and to provide infrastructure to their laboratories to make research easier for excellent researchers. I am too young to have one, too young and undereducated (no PhD). These are extremely difficult to get, there are only 338 of them right now. The grantees are chosen by program area committee, all of whom are experts in their field. Like NSERC they receive government money under no stipulations.
We also have CFI. The Canadian Foundation for innovation. These are rather large grants, given primarily for the construction of large state of the art laboratories in various fields. It often takes a large group of scientists to successfully acquire a grant, which tends to focus the large laboratories into the large universities. Their assessment process is also accomplished by established researchers.
Often, the provincial governments and individual universities have similar programs.
There are also private research scholarship organizations. Often dealing with exchange programs with other nations. The Killam scholarship comes to mind. These scholarships are generally temporary and generally only meant to spark collaborations accross borders.
Finally, there are industries that will fund research into their area of specialisation. For instance, Dalhousie University in Halifax has one of the premier research centers for lithium ion battery science in the world. The recipient is Jeff Dahn, the grantor is 3M. They claim all intellectual property rights from the research and can thus suppress research in these overspecialized areas.
However, the vast majority of scientists do not receive money from industry... excepting industrial engineers. The government and the above research organizations generally have guaranteed funding agreements so that the government cannot pull funding if the scientists publish uncomfortable results. In the end, it generally means academic freedom in Canada. Recently, a professor from St Francis Xavier even went to the Iranian Holocaust denying conference.
That upset some people, but he still has his job, didn't break the hate crime laws, and still receives his funding.
All that to say that the government of Canada cannot really suppress Canadian science. However, industries or powerful organizations have the money to stir up debate which causes the public to view science poorly. The person doesn't even have to be a scientist. They just go out, hack together a documentary with enough money, advertise it in a scandalous way and muddy the waters. Then millions of actual research money is spent by scientists trying to refute bogus claims.
Common areas of false debate:
1) Nuclear science or radiation of any form.
2) Climate science including ocean science.
3) Ecology and animal population control.
4) Nanotechnology and artificial intelligence.
5) Genetics, and biochemistry.
Sorry for the long-winded-ness. Just felt like getting that out there.
(Kidding).
