Post <blockquote>Ottawa University gave a chair last year to a woman who they later worked out couldn’t teach either semester because she lives and works full time in europe. A program that once attracted great people to come to canada is going to become a program for piping money from canadian universities into the bank accounts of people (assumably mainly women) who have no interest in actually making a contribution there. No this is not a dumb comment. Look at the CRC program. It was designed to attract research stars to Canada. Now it has been suddenly cut and made non-renewable so that _diversity gains can be made_ . First of all this abruptly reneged the initial contract that was made with people who accepted CRCs to come to Canada. Second of all it makes the program much less competitive internationally (why would you relocate to Canada if your funding will be cut in 14 years when you are approaching dead-wood territory? Much better to take a permanent chair at a US university). Finally there are reasons to believe that the government itself is not super committed to diversity but instead is more committed to lambasting university professors for their supposed lack of commitment to the diversity cause (not sure what the reasons are, but they might be for instance interested in simply thrashing the CRC program). Anyway there is too much politics in funding of Canadian science and the government is both inept and corrupt.</blockquote>

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