Most of the scientific community's visible efforts to convince the public to push the government towards greater support of science have almost all been in the area that they used to call global warming. But since nothing happened there, they now talk about various kinds of global warming. That means that they can go in either direction; they are always right.
I wonder if, in other areas, in the everyday science that we need, Canadians are sufficiently informed about the need.
One day, Canadians are going to turn and ask the government if it has finished spending taxpayers' money on silly things or on ivory towers.