From Dr. Goodyear’s wiki page:

In early 2009, Goodyear oversaw a series of contentious funding cuts for science programs, the most prominent being the lack of any funding for new projects for Genome Canada. Critics of the cuts, including a team of neuroscientists who lost funding, argued that when coupled with the Obama administration’s increased funding for science, the cuts could produce a brain drain as researchers move to the United States and secure funding.

Dr. G et al are putting funding into applied science rather than research. For example, they are putting funding into the Industrial Research Assistance Program and a large block of the budget into upgrading campus facilities, while completely cutting off Project Genome. This is compared to President O putting $10 billion into health research alone.