Pre-Budget Analysis

Tasseographers and loose tea leaves are in short supply in Ottawa these days as speculation over the most important federal Budget in a decade reaches a fevered pitch. Fuelled by the prospect of severe cost cutting measures to rein in a massive deficit and tempered by vague, reassuring statements from the political hierarchy about the importance of R&D and innovation (RDI), the only given is the near certainty that support for Canada's research enterprise is about to experience a major shake-up.