Funding research is important of itself and for the economy said 2,000 researchers including some of the country's most respected scientists, who have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister calling funding cuts in January “a huge step backwards for Canadian science.”
The federal government chopped $147.9 million from three granting agencies that fund research at Canadian universities.
The lack of funds for curiosity driven research that leads to important historical proven discoveries force scientists to look for cuts in the lab while worrying about the future, said one scientist in a recent Globe and Mail publication.
Meanwhile, United States researchers are being actively approached to use the stimulus money to think big and to hire their Canadian counterparts.
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