In pursuit of "freedom" Smith and LaGrange risk compromising education.
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Alberta’s advanced education minister has stressed the bill is not intended to obstruct federal money for post-secondary institutions. “I don’t believe the intent of this bill is to stop funding,” Rajan Sawhney said. “It’s to have an understanding and knowledge and information about what is being funded.”
However, she added: “We want to make sure that this funding does align with provincial priorities.”
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The provincial regulation, however, will ensure the research projects funded by the councils are agreeable to the province. “It’s the provincial government that’s actually doing what it accuses the federal government of doing,” Lang said.
University of Alberta law professor Eric Adams in an earlier interview said the government may not impede research on issues that it has an ideological position on, although he asked the province to clarify its intentions.
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The researchers told the representatives the provincial regulations could add years to their project, which would be detrimental to their competitiveness and relationships with colleagues outside the region. “It would place Alberta researchers at a terrible handicap relative to researchers in other provinces,” Sutherland said.
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https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...ederal-funding
Such forward thinking leadership. I wonder what the Office of Red Tape Reduction thinks of this? Good thing we have at least another 3 years of this stupidity.