Silence
of the Labs is the title given to the Fifth Estate presentation
coming up on CBC this Friday which anyone concerned with the future
of Canadian scientific research, indeed the very future of Canada,
should make a point of watching. Whilst I do not know what their
investigative reporting will reveal their brief description gives us
a good idea.
“In the past few years, the federal government has cut
funding to hundreds of renowned research institutes and programs.
Ottawa has dismissed more than 2,000 federal scientists and
researchers and has drastically cut or ended programs that monitored
smoke stack emissions, food inspections, oil spills, water quality
and climate change.
Now some scientists have become unlikely radicals,
denouncing what they call is a politically-driven war on knowledge.
In Silence of the Labs, Linden MacIntyre tells the story of
scientists - and what is at stake for Canadians - from Nova Scotia to
the B.C. Pacific Coast to the far Arctic Circle.”
That these scientist were unable to tell their story, or indeed
reveal details of their research without 'permission' from the Harper
regime, until they found themselves without jobs or funding and their
research or monitoring programs shut down says much about the respect
that Harper and his cronies have for factual information and science
based decision making. There is indeed a war on knowledge in progress
with even 'book
burning' being carried out in the name of 'conciliation' and cost
cutting, expect revisionist history and Orwellian propaganda to be
coming soon........ Oh wait, its already started!
Do take the time to watch the program, I suspect it will reveal
much about the priorities of the Harper regime and their preference
of ideology over fact based decisions.
BROADCAST
DATE : Jan 10, 2014 'check your local listings for more
information'
EDIT
The program can now be watched
on line here
A list of the facilities and programs that have been shut down can
be found here.
Cross posted at Democracy
Under Fire and The Rural Canadian
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