Harper to fund parking lots: this is getting ridiculous!

PM Harper is going to give a $500 million boost to GO Transit!

CBC reports, "Some of the money [Editorial Note: $173 million actually] will go toward improving parking at 12 GO stations, from Mississauga to Markham and to Pickering, said McGuinty."

Why Harper and McGuinty, why? Let's stop building parking lots with public funding! What about doing something visionary like expanding/modernizing our rail services? More and better public transit please! Not more places to park cars we should NOT be driving in the first place. Thank you!

The state of science in Canada

CBC reported on the lack of science funding in the latest Canadian federal budget (announced on January 27, 2009). This also included a lack of new funding to Genome Canada (a not-for-profit). As a result, many of our brightest and best medical researchers will leave us and make their wonderful discoveries elsewhere! We need our best scientists to stay in Canada. And we also need to attract world-wide scientists to come to Canada to part-take in our research industries!

CBC also covered the call of scientists to end the politicization of science. They pointed to many dangerous political decisions made "including the closure of the office of the National Science Adviser, the firing of the head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and what it calls "political appointments" to the board of Assisted Human Reproduction Canada."

When will Harper get it, that funding science is vital to the success of our nation? This should NOT be a partisan issue! Every political party should understand the importance of science!