re: #607 Josephine

From that article:

“Government officials dispute that they have abandoned the independent funding agency. The government’s view is that it gave Genome Canada $100-million in 2007 and $140-million in 2008. Minister of Science and Technology Gary Goodyear insisted in Question Period yesterday that both of those sums were to be rolled out over five years and that the money should last the organization until 2013.”

Politicians have been known to occasionally spin the truth and even lie to make themselves look better, especially when caught doing something they shouldn’t.