And for those who think that Harper's desire to privatizing government is a fantasy of the paranoids among us, check this out.
On June 6, 2008, the Treasury Board released the long-awaited report of the Independent Panel of Experts studying the transfer of federal government laboratories to academia and/or the private sector. Following up on the government's intentions outlined in the 2007 federal budget, the panel identified five "early candidates" for transfer. The first two will be Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Canadian Cereal Research and Innovation Laboratory in Winnipeg, and Natural Resources Canada's Geosciences Laboratory in Ottawa.
A Blueprint for Dismantling Public Science
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