Genome Canada Board responds to budget omission
Genome Canada’s Board of Directors has issued a statement regarding the 2009 federal budget. The board trumpets the federal government’s decision to spend on infrastructure and reassures researchers that currently funded projects will continue to be funded as promised. Parts of the statement read as a defense of the government’s initiatives, such as the statement that the investment from the last two years will be used for “creating and maintaining over 2,350 HQP [ed. highly-qualified personnel, jargon for research jobs] per year” and the reiteration that funding announced in the last two years will result in actual cash disbursement of $106.5-million in 2009-2010.
Genome Canada’s board concludes by stating it is “confident that the Government of Canada and its other financial strategic partners will do everything possible over the coming years to secure additional funding to support new initiatives in genomics research in Canada while increasing Canada’s productivity, wealth and well-being of all Canadians“, though this sounds more like wishful thinking than actual confidence.
