Opinion: We need to fund fundamental science

One day, the research that my students and I are doing at the University of Victoria on a protein expressed in the brain could provide vital insights into the mysteries of conditions like autism and schizophrenia.
If and when it does, chalk another one up for fundamental science, the curiosity-driven form of science that virtually every major scientific breakthrough is built on.
Unfortunately, it’s also the kind of science most under threat in Canada right now, losing ground year after yea