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Originally Posted by Regorium
My understanding is that Harper re-allocated funding from basic science (ie. academia) to industry science (joint industry projects, industry R&D etc.).
Obviously post-docs and PhD students aren't happy, and everyone is framing it as a subsidy for corporations. The R&D credit for corporations has existed forever, it was just expanded under Harper.
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So, if I understand you correctly, the Harper government is basing policy decisions (such as how to regulate certain industries) on data from industry stakeholders themselves rather than from objective sources such as: science professionals working in the public service, the academy, and the long form census data, etc?
That is more horrifyingly absurd than I ever feared possible.