Canadian finance minister Jim Flaherty yesterday released the country's 2013 budget, calling it “a plan for jobs, growth and long-term prosperity”, words that will please some of the budget's main beneficiaries: those working in applied research. But for those who argue that investments in basic research are necessary for innovation and prosperity, “this is a really bad budget”, says James Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers in Ottawa, Ontario.
“There is a consistent pattern of steering money away from basic research,” says Turk. “More and more of it is being directed to company needs.”
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