Well, this is a coup for Harper. He cut a LOT of research grants to fund this search. I remember an interview with a woman who had been studying Vikings her whole life. They were right in the midst of excavating a site believed to be an early Viking village in the Canadian north (Baffin Island), when she got the call that her funding had been removed.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ce-sutherland/
You have one guess why her funding was cut so that we could find the Franklin.