There are. When one looks across the whole press of society, there have been declines at all levels—at provincial levels and federal levels—in terms of funding for some of these taxonomic initiatives. In part, I understand that as a museum worker, because, for example, museums don't seem particularly sexy, nor do reference collections. People visit them and think there are a lot of dead things and wonder what the point of these things is.
I can point out, for example, in relation to the brown spruce longhorn beetle, that key to identifying that species were specimens collected in 1990 that were in the reference collection of the Nova Scotia Museum. It took a decade, until the year 2000, before those were correctly identified. That is the point at which the brown spruce longhorn beetle came onto the Canadian radar. It really points out the importance of reference collections and museums in providing sort of baseline information.
For example, there is very little taxonomy training these days in universities. The National Research Council Canada monograph series has been key for decades. They produced very important monographs that are of value not only in Canada but throughout North America for allowing taxonomists to identify things. The demise of that series is a real significant blow to our ability to recognize things.
Funding for museums and monograph programs, even though they are not that sexy, is really important.