The
federal government is investing to upgrade agricultural research
facilities.
Agriculture
Minister
Lawrence MacAulay announced that federal
government’s
2016 budget
includes
$37.6 to modernize a number of research stations and laboratories in
British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec.
Before
budget cuts in the 1970s, Agriculure Canada ran the largest research
organization in the country, employing more than 1,000 scientists in
more than 50 research stations.
It
is also Canada’s oldest research organization.
Today
it is a pale shadow of that previous stature.
