FEDERAL CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT STILL ATTACKING DISSENT

More than 400 academics have written a letter to Diane Findlay, a cabinet member in the Harper government. They are expressing their belief that a Canada Revenue Agency audit of the left leaning Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is politically motivated. The Conservative federal goveernment has long been accused of being anti-science and of intentionally defunding scientific research that embarasses them on either the home front or on the world stage. Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story titled "Academics defending think-tank". Our government of course denys any political interference whatsoever in the activities of the Canada Revenue Agency. Unfortunately governments albeit in "democracies" or otherwise in the U.S. and other locations have played these games before. Is it any wonder the lack of respect for politicians because of their incredible pettiness and abuses of authority?