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Perhaps we could include a section about how the current prime minister Steven Harper has gutted the environmental sector so badly that it can barely function and accurately conduct environmental assessments?

2010 - Harper government's new policy requires own scientists and academics to get minister’s “pre-approval” — For example, a Natural Resources Canada scientists had to wait so long for clearance that his media conference had to be postponed for a week.

2007 Harper government fires head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission — Linda Keen, then head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, accused Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn of interfering with the Commission’s decision-making. Keen was then promptly fired, hours before before she and Lunn were to appear before a Parliamentary committee

2006 - Harper’s Environment Minister forbids a departmental scientist from giving a reading from his fictional book about global warming – the reason: then-Minister of Natural Resources Gary Lunn was in the middle of dismantling government programs as part of an anti-Kyoto Protocol stance — the fear was that the reading might be perceived as contrary to the government’s own position

Source: https://citizenactionmonitor.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/harpers-record-of-gutting-dissent-gives-whole-new-meaning-to-bully-pulpit/

I have absolutely no experience with editing wikipedia articles, so if someone else can make use of this information, please do. User - 74.210.120.91

Hello there - I would love to help you out however the link (source) you have provided is a blog type page. (I do believe it all true however....) It is what we call a Self-published source and is not reliable. It also does not look like a neutral point of view on the matter - meaning it looks very one-sided (bias).. I believe all that is said there can be sourced (as the page claims). But how many things are being left out to get us were the author wants. Moxy ( talk) 05:48, 1 December 2011 (UTC) reply

It seems to me that the NRCan logo shown is probably not the correct logo. The English version reads "National Resources Canada" instead of "Natural Resources Canada". I looked on the NRCan website but can't find an official logo available for use. 134.117.72.46 ( talk) 13:39, 8 May 2014 (UTC) reply