No government in Canadian history has been as hostile to science as
Stephen Harper's wingnuts. John Dupuis has assembled a brief,
brutal chronology of the ways that the Tories have attacked Canadian
science. It's no coincidence that this government is so hostile to
science, seeing as how its funding and grassroots support come from the
tar sands and related Big Oil interests, who want as little known as
possible about the impact of their dirty industry on the planet we all
share.
This is a brief chronology of the current wingnut Canadian
government’s long campaign to undermine evidence-based scientific,
environmental and technical decision-making. It is a government that is
beholden to big business, particularly big oil, and that makes every
attempt to shape public policy to that end. It is a government that
fundamentally doesn’t believe in science. It is a government that is
more interested in keeping its corporate masters happy than in
protecting the environment.
As is occasionally my habit, I have pulled together a chronology of
sorts. It is a chronology of all the various cuts, insults, muzzlings
and cancellations that I’ve been able to dig up. Each of them represents
a single shot in the Canadian wingnut war on science. It should be
noted that not every item in this chronology, if taken in isolation, is
necessarily the end of the world. It’s the accumulated evidence that is
so damning.
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