let that be a lesson to you

While we wait to find out whether Genome Canada’s conspicuous – and apparently entirely unexpected – absence from the budget was a clumsy, but inadvertant omission or a deliberate decision to pull the financial rug out from under the agency, ITQ can’t help but wonder whether it might not have been a good idea to set up more than one single, solitary pre-budget meeting with a mid-level Finance official to make the case for continued federal support.  (If that link is rendered inoperable by the cruel and capricious LRB lobby database, just go here, click your way through to “Search Monthly Communications Reports” and punch in “Genome Canada”.)