Reddit reviews The War on Science: Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper's Canada

>Were these claims ever substantiated, and if so, did the Trudeau government reverse or change these policies?

Yes there is an entire book on it

https://www.amazon.ca/War-Science-Muzzled-Scientists-Blindness/dp/1771004312

There is extensive discussion of this "muzzling by stealth" in The War on Science, which covers this whole subject area in sometimes nauseating detail.

http://www.amazon.ca/The-War-Science-Scientists-Blindness/dp/1771004312

The author's thesis is that all of this is by design and all intended to eliminate dissent to the government's resource extraction priorities.

>Were these claims ever substantiated, and if so, did the Trudeau government reverse or change these policies?

Yes there is an entire book on it

https://www.amazon.ca/War-Science-Muzzled-Scientists-Blindness/dp/1771004312

Somebody did...in Ottawa anyway. Chris Turner's book War on Science is a good read. he was part of the Death of Evidence march in 2012.

You asked about Harper, I gave you the answers and your reply only relates to 8 of the 23 things I mentioned, you have anything to say about the 15 other things?

> This is literally something I have only heard on reddit. I believed it back then, but now I am a lot smarter to just trust random redditors and get my opinions from them

There was a book about it as well

https://www.amazon.ca/War-Science-Muzzled-Scientists-Blindness/dp/1771004312

Canada survived similar

• http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/faq-the-issues-around-muzzling-government-scientists-1.3079537
  
  
• https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/09/16/stephen-harpers-war-on-experts.html
  
  
• https://www.amazon.ca/War-Science-Muzzled-Scientists-Blindness/dp/1771004312

1. Maybe if you could make a coherent argument against Harper being anti-science I will engage with you.
   
   
2. A grad student crying for funding so he can continue working 50+ hrs/week for shit pay is exactly the same thing as a corporation lobbying for subsidies. /s
   
   
3. Here are some articles on Harper and his anti-science stance:
   
   http://www.academicmatters.ca/2013/05/harpers-attack-on-science-no-science-no-evidence-no-truth-no-democracy/
   
   This is a great blog post chronicling virtually every cut, muzzling, cancellation etc from the Harper government: http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2013/05/20/the-canadian-war-on-science-a-long-unexaggerated-devastating-chronological-indictment/
   
   http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/01/07/pellerin-robson-stephen-harper-vs-canadas-intellectuals/
   
   "The War on Science: Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper's Canada" by Chris Turner is also a great book on the subject: http://www.amazon.ca/The-War-Science-Scientists-Blindness/dp/1771004312