CIHR is a federal agency and I'm a federal civil servant, so I won't engage you directly on that. I would agree with my colleague, though, that Canadians expect all governments to invest wisely, but also to make key strategic investments, whether it's in defence, research, or physical infrastructure.
I would argue that in a knowledge-based world we need to invest in knowledge, people, and research. The government, very wisely, has created CIHR to help them do that in health research.