Without question, federal funding of research, through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, has not kept pace with the capacity that's been added or with inflation. The proportion of grants that have been funded is in free fall. The times are very tight right now.
So Canadian researchers look to places like California. It's very tempting. I'm headhunted several times a year. A few times, I've had to really think about it. But I'm a Canadian, and I'm pretty nationalistic, and...but anyhow.