dude if you rely on government funding and your work involves anything other than either exploiting poor people or blowing up brown people, or both, then you’re in for a rude awakening when the trumpistan agenda is in full swing
From my brief time in academics, it was my impression those types of researchers were already hamstrung for support
Don’t come to Canada - we’re about to get a pretty extreme Conservative government, and they were notorious for censoring science, especially climate science, last time they were in power.
Dont you have a Parliament that would prevent this?
The US only has two viable parties, and they’re both conservative. Canada has several viable progressive parties actually sitting in Parliament.
Every election in 2024 has had incumbent parties lose vote share or lose elections. Canada is going the same way.
Also the current governing Liberals are center to center-right by European standards.
In terms of who has the power, Canada is not all that different: the first-past-the-post electoral system ensures that smaller parties don’t get represented and leaves two parties far stronger than all of the others. And those two powerful parties are a centrish, corporate-friendly party and a right-wing, corporate-friendly party. It’s not as insane as the USA, but it’s not as balanced as some European countries traditionally have been. Depressingly, even those European countries are lurching towards fascism these days.
And because most Canadians are paying attention just to Canada and the USA, it never occurs to many people that we could be doing quite a lot better. Or if it does, they react by flipping to the other one of the main two parties, and a few years later they flip back.
