text: All Canadians should rally behind this report.  I am biased because I work in a Research Institute but consider the following:
  
  - Canadians are really good at scientific research.  Fundamental discoveries about stem cells were made and are being made in Canada.  We just got a Nobel Prize in Physics.  We developed an ebola vaccine in the midst of a crisis.
  
  - The national budget for scientific research was essentially flat for a decade.  
  
  - Everyone looks at Scientific Research as something that might suddenly lead to a profitable invention.  It doesn't work that way and it doesn't matter -- scientific research is an economic engine in its own right.  The funds that the Naylor report asks for are not for the salary or personal gain of researchers.  Every independent scientist in Canada is surrounded by a cloud of people who are not PhDs or MDs and who make a solid productive living from scientific research as an industry in its own right: technicians, administrators, accountants, etc.