You're asking me to speculate. I cannot speculate, with my expertise. This is not my expertise. I would suspect that often people don't understand what the research is doing. There's probably a perception that this was put forward by a previous administration and we're a new government, so we're going to do things differently.
Sometimes you throw the baby out with the bathwater when you blindly cut everything that has been done before. So I would have thought some caution would have been a better way to approach. That's probably what's going on. There's still time to fix all that, and hopefully we'll see change in the future.