Information Cleansing, Canadian Style
by Bill Berkowitz
If you're a teacher, student, journalist or just a plain concerned
citizen interested in finding well-researched documentation about
climate change, you can no longer depend on the Canadian government to
supply that information. According to Canada's Liberal Party, since
early July, the country's government -- under conservative Prime
Minister Stephen Harper -- has been systematically scrubbing its
websites of information regarding global warming and the Kyoto Protocol
treaty to curb greenhouse gas emissions. (As of Wednesday, Aug. 16,
when you visit the government of Canada's Climate Change website, you
find the following message: "The Government of Canada Climate Change
site is currently unavailable.") Despite its relatively short time in
office, the Harper government has been repeatedly accused of following
the lead of the George W. Bush administration in the United States.
Now, it appears it has taken up the Bush administration's habit of
mixing science and politics by purposefully expunging information from
federal websites dealing with climate change and its ramifications. In
addition, in designing its new "Made in Canada" plan to deal with the
environment and global warming -- a plan due to be unveiled in October
-- government officials are working in secrecy and without significant
participation from environmental organizations.
full article
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug06/Berkowitz18.htm
Canada's Climate Change website
http://www.climatechange.gc.ca/
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