Merci, monsieur le président.
It is the duty of government to subsidize science--I can understand that--and it is the duty of the scientists to convince government that pure science is so much more fun when they do it with big budgets. But isn't it also the duty of the scientific community to convince the public—“Joe Canadian”, who wakes up every morning, goes to work, and will probably not send his children to universities subsidized with his money, and whose taxes will be used for all kinds of projects he does not understand and that have no established priorities he can adhere to—so that “Joe Canadian” will ask the government to subsidize science, and we will not always have you, as poor beggars, trying to get the government to give you more money?
At some point you will have to become convincers, not beggars. Do you realize that you have been doing a horrible job of convincing the public to force government to subsidize science?
Monsieur St-Onge.