National Research Council: Harper Tories Tell Agency To Focus On Industry, Not Raw Science
This is just brilliant, why don't we go back to living in a theocracy where the church tells us everything we need to know...oh wait we're heading there now.
Scientists take aim at Harper cuts with ‘death of evidence’ protest on Parliament Hill - The Globe and Mail
When hundreds of usually apolitical scientist show up to protest it's usually an indication that a government isn't supporting the sciences.
When you are a full blown ideologue you tend to be completely blinded by everything that does not fit into your narrow and distorted viewpoint.
Endlessly cut'n'pasting left wing media editorials as factual reality seems to fall into that catagory.
The National Research Council of Canada was founded to "to advise the government on matters of science and industrial research".
It's very mandate is to "to advise the government on matters of science and industrial research".
A recent review had reported to the Government of the Day that the scientists and researchers over at the NRC had wandered quite far from their mandate.
The Conservative Government of Canada lead by Stephen Harper has actually increased overall funding for research in Canada.
It's worth repeating, the Prime Minister of Canada and his Conservative Government have actually increased funding to research in Canada.
Obviously individual scientists would love to be completely unfettered and unmonitored and thus able spend tax payers money however they see fit.
Whatever their pet project, whatever they happen to want to publish on or whatever stands the greatest chance of increasing their personal net worth or academic standing.
And thus they had been starting to use NRC of Canada funding and laboratories as their own personal sandbox.
A review recommended steering the NRC of Canada back to it's original mandate.
And that is exactly what the Goverment announced they were going to do.
What a shocker.
BTW the Government of Canada also funds pretty much all the research done at all of Canadas universities as well.
Private sector money is welcomed but the tax payer funds the majority.