Is the Canadian government muzzling scientists? Across the country, many scientists accuse Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government of, what they call, a ‘war’ on knowledge and science. They’re expressing concern over the cutting of hundreds of renowned research programs and the dismissal of more than 2000 federal scientists and researchers over the past few years. So, is the Canadian government censoring scientific research, and, if so, why? We discuss at 19:30GMT.
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The Harper-led government announced last week that it would be closing seven of the 11 Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries by 2015 as part of federal spending cuts. Although 30,000 departmental publications have been digitised, scientists and campaigners fear that valuable scientific content would be lost forever.