The demolition of environmental protections and science in Canada is shaping up to be the big story of the year. With a new majority government in place, the stripping of environmental protections for the Canadian people is stunning to see happen as fast as it it. Likely this will all end up in the courts. Now the scientists themselves are becoming publicly vocal in their opposition to these moves.
Three scientists from B.C. have used an internationally prestigious journal to launch an attack against changes to the federal Fisheries Act currently before the Senate. In a letter published online Thursday in the journal “Science,” the scientists from Simon Fraser University criticize cutbacks at eco-toxicology labs and an aquatic research facility and changes to the act itself, saying the government’s rational for making the changes is not supported by fact.