One of the areas of my research is looking at institutional trust and perceived politicization. One of the challenges that we've discovered is that once people perceive an institution to be politicized, it has a negative impact on trust, not just for the people who perceive the institution to be on the opposite side from their politics but also for the people who perceive the institution to be on the same side as their politics. Scientists, the consumers of science and the consumers of scholarship do not want their institutions to be politicized.
Canada, unfortunately, has a reputation of having a somewhat politicized academy. Dr. Pinker talked about the impact that the perceptions of politicization are now having in the U.S.; Canada has an opportunity here to try to be a safe haven for a more objective, less politicized academy. People who are trying to flee a politicized and undermined academic environment in the U.S. could hopefully find a more flexible, free funding climate in Canada, as well as an academy that tries to lower the temperature on politicization.
Politicization in science is like bacteria in an operating room. There's no way you'll be able to get rid of it entirely, but you do want to do as much as you can to remove it. I don't think you should trust any surgeon who's not trying to do that.