In which we discuss the budget, again
Following on from my last post, it appears that the Canadian federal government has decided not to fund Genome Canada at all. Which is dreadful news for the research community that I inhabit.
You can read an article by reporter Carolyn Abraham that made the front page of this morning’s Globe and Mail, right here (and excerpted below).
For the first time in nine years, Genome Canada, a non-profit non-governmental funding organization, was not mentioned in the federal budget and saw its annual cash injection from Ottawa – $140-million last year – disappear.
“We got nothing, nothing, and we don’t know why,” said a stunned Martin Godbout, Genome Canada president and CEO. “We’re devastated.”
This is potentially going to make it a lot harder to attract and retain highly qualified personnel to run these fancy “tools of the trade” that we have in our labs. There’s one last recourse I can think of – I believe the final debate on the budget is today. We’ll see if anything changes. Until then, I’m going to mope.
Posted on Thursday, January 29th, 2009 at 3:18 pm Categorized as:General You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
