Stephen Harper is cutting 700 positions from Environment Canada

[canuckledragger]

..taking a cue from from the U.S. Republican playbook & where you slowly destroy any agency that gets in the way of corporate profits..

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/08/04/pol-environment-job-cuts.html?ref=rss

"Meteorologists, chemists, biologists and other scientists are among those who will be receiving letters from the department notifying them that they will either lose their job or be placed on a list of employees deemed "surplus."

"Gary Corbett, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, which represents 57,000 scientists and professionals in the federal and some provincial governments, said Thursday there is shock and sadness among his union's members — more than 200 of them — who will be affected by the cuts."

"When you start to erode the professionals doing this work, down the road it will certainly hurt Canadians … maybe their water quality, maybe their air quality," Corbett said.


Pesky environmental scientist..don't know their place & when to shut up..especially when stories about the Alberta Athabasca tar sands extraction poising the local native population start to come out...

http://www.earthpulsedaily.net/epd-post/oil-sands-contamination-athabasca-river

[Firebrand Gary]

1. Another pawn of Rupert Murdoch does his bidding.