The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council has a staff of 100 and a budget of $100.1 million, equivalent to a year's worth of taxes for 22,871 taxpayers and certainly symbolic of government waste to most Canadians.
How can the government continue to support $16,000 to investigate attacks on aristocratic behaviour in 18th century Britain and $59,800 to study ecology and history in the insular Quoddy region?