I kinda love it... probably don't have the space for it though.

Probably aimed at LNG and pipelines then.

I had the same reaction. "If you were trying to dispel rumors that you run your cacus like a frat house you've definitely done that... by confirming them."

Its so good!

Who could have predicted this? (Everyone, everyone predicted it)

Him winning the 5 letter words task by not doing it was the best thing ever.

I'm a little worried that the gamble seems to be on resource extraction industry primarily, and I think Canada needs to be more than our resources. But I'm not an economist so maybe it's the right gamble?

My read so far: Bad for academia as a whole, probably good for the top 5 Unis; short term bad for individuals and good for industry, which may end up being good for individuals in the longer term, but its quite a gamble.

If they're worried about political retaliation that seems worse.

I get that the law has some restraint on Universities, and in that way - the administration in particular, are curtailed in how we engage in this conversation.

However if this was a data breach by any other party, we would have made a statement, and done something about it.

So what this tells you is a) these "cuts" to new visas issued aren't really cuts, but rather targets catching up to reality and b) the damage to instituional finances I described aren't going to happen next year - they've already happened.

Oh yeah, thinking of the pure concept of using grant applications for political reasons is like peaking over the edge of a high cliff.