"This is not a government that welcomes science.
"It has terminated scientific programs aimed at monitoring climate change just because it doesn’t like their conclusions.
"It has muzzled its own scientists from discussing their findings publicly, particularly when these findings contradict government plans to eliminate environmental laws and regulations.
"It has hobbled economic and social research by killing Statistics Canada’s mandatory long-form census. ...
"... by changing the law so that cabinet — in the unlikely event of a decision against the pipeline — can override the energy board, Harper has done himself no favours.
"He has made the lines of responsibility, which in classic Canadian fashion had been deliberately blurred, crystal clear."
Full article: Walkom: Harper’s pipeline ‘about-face’ is anything but.
