Brian Gettler<p>"Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, has pledged to 'end the imposition of woke ideology in the allocation of federal funds for university research' should his party win the Canadian federal election on 28 April."</p><p>Scholars allocate most research funding in Canada, even if the federal government sets priorities and establishes envelopes. Regardless, Poilievre's position is anything but reasssuring.</p><p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/canadian-election-top-conservative-candidate-vows-end-woke-ideology-science-funding" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/ca</span><span class="invisible">nadian-election-top-conservative-candidate-vows-end-woke-ideology-science-funding</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>