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Originally Posted by photon
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Along those lines, I heard through the rumor mill at the CFIA that the operating budget will be 65% of what it was last year, which was a bad year. Harper keeps pumping funds into the inspection side of things, which of course is important, but meanwhile the laboratory side of things (ie: diagnostics and research) are being decimated.
That has pretty huge ramifications on research (ie: there is literally no money). In my research lab, we're operating nearly exclusively off external grant money save the salaries of two PIs and one permanent technician. Everything else is grant based.
I know people like to make fun of government workers, but science (right now, anyway) is not like that at all. A lot of people are working a lot of extra hours for "the love of science".