Other factions want to extend MAID to treatable psychological conditions simply because so many people are needlessly suffering without treatment. It's cheaper to put someone on ODSP for 14k a year than it is to treat them; this is just the next logical step.

I think you mean Canadian Conservatives.

Republicanism in Canada or Canadian Republicanism is a movement for the replacement of the monarchy of Canada and a monarch as head of state with a parliamentary republic and a democratically-selected Canadian as head of state.

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Having seen my father die of alzheimers after years and years of awefulness. I did not cry at the funeral. I was cried out from my crying for his plight in life. I was happy he finally had respite. I am so jealous of the option.

This is going to be one of the biggest legacies of the current Republican administration's Project 2025 agenda. Not only the direct cuts to research, but also the massive cuts to educating the next generation of researchers. Also related: banning/limiting whole swathes of research pathways, like stem cells and mRNA (as high profile examples).

Totally agreed, though; primary research is critical for solving most (all?l of the major problems we are facing. Healthcare, of course, but we're on a knife edge of major Earth cycles breaking down, accelerating anthropogenic climate change. The collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is terrifying, as is runaway carbon escape from defrosting tundra. And the total spending on primary research trying to solve these existential crises is a budgetary rounding error.