Ottawa has blown a huge opportunity to reverse a poor decision it made earlier this year to cut seven federally funded agricultural research stations across the country and 655 personnel.
Last week, federal agriculture and agri-food minister Heath MacDonald announced he was ignoring the recommendation of an all-party committee looking into the cuts which recommended they be paused and reversed.
Instead, MacDonald said, “closure of the research and development centres will be phased and carefully managed.”
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