He's also a chiropractor. So he's a creationist and a pretend doctor, and they put him in charge of Science and Technology. In fact, the decision was probably based on his fake doctoring skills, despite "chiropractor" being to "doctor" what a pentacle and some incense is to the Large Hadron Collider.
Also (and this is somewhat old) he's apparently decided that the NRC isn't doing enough to help large corporations milk Canadian citizens for sellable ideas, so the NRC is being "refocused" to research commercial products instead of doing, you know, actual research, like it's supposed to:
This despite the blazingly obvious fact that researching and developing commercial products is what the entire private sector is for and we fund these public institutions with public money so they can do the risky, low-return research that gives us "useless" things like the cure for cancer.
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Date: 2012-06-07 05:08 pm (UTC)Also (and this is somewhat old) he's apparently decided that the NRC isn't doing enough to help large corporations milk Canadian citizens for sellable ideas, so the NRC is being "refocused" to research commercial products instead of doing, you know, actual research, like it's supposed to:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/03/06/technology-goodyear-national-research-council.html
This despite the blazingly obvious fact that researching and developing commercial products is what the entire private sector is for and we fund these public institutions with public money so they can do the risky, low-return research that gives us "useless" things like the cure for cancer.