Canada’s politicized funding agencies advance ideology and undermine science: Geoff Horsman for Inside Policy – MLI
September 11, 2025
Canada’s research funding system is increasingly conditioned on ideological conformity, eroding academic inquiry under politicized mandates.
In Canada in 2025, a scientist can be denied government research funding for expressing sentiments like the following in a grant application:
- “I treat people as individuals and do not agree with assigning people as more- or less-deserving (e.g. having faced barriers) based on intersectional identities like race or sex.”
- Institutionally mandated “racial discrimination in publicly funded science is one major barrier facing students in science.”
I know this to be true because that scientist is me.
