Dr. Ted Hsu, the Member of Parliament for the riding of Kingston and the Islands, speaks against recent funding cuts to NSERC

Dr. Ted Hsu, the Member of Parliament for the riding of Kingston and the Islands, speaks against recent funding cuts to NSERC: "Dr. Hsu’s statements in the House of Commons on this subject. On May 3, 2012 (14:57):
“Mr. Speaker, the budget's language says to cut funding for research at NSERC but to protect industry collaborations, scholarships and discovery grants. However, there is not much left to cut at NSERC. So, the RTI grants will be cut, the source of funding to repair and purchase medium-sized equipment.
Researchers are furious. It is like sending a carpenter to work without a hammer.
Why did the minister force cuts to funding used to fix and buy needed equipment?”
As well as on May 10, 2012 (13:28):
“Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague speaks about the CFI program. It is indeed a good program, but the problem that we have had for many years now is that we need funds to operate the infrastructure that we buy. We need to train technical people. That is why there was a program called the MRS program at NSERC, and that was just frozen. It has ended. There is no new money allotted for places like the Brockhouse Institute. The neutron scattering groups are going to be losing their MRS funding, so they are not going to have the money to use the infrastructure that we have. That is a problem.
Why did the government choose to cut that money?”
Finally, he spoke at length on the subject of basic research funding in Canada. You will find his speech in its entirety, available here: http://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/5/8/ted-hsu-1/