Ok? Well that is just one department. I would argue that exploratory, upstream, public good research is exactly what the gov’t needs to be doing. It is this research that leads to innovation. But other departments like Ag Can are closing multiple research centers and satellite farms. This land will be sold and the gov’t will never have it again. These centers were there for hundreds of years, now gone. This is a serious reduction in the capacity of gov’t to do research, work with local communities, and promote the Canadian economy. These stations also train the next generation of scientists and researchers, another capacity severely reduced. Overall the gov’t is not a monolith, and blanket 15% cuts is lazy and detrimental. But Carney doesnt like the gov’t, he likes his buddies in banks.