Scientists lament closing of key advisory office
Members of Canada’s scientific community praised the contributions of the and expressed regret over the government’s decision to phase out the position at the end of March.
On Wednesday, confirmed that national science adviser Arthur Carty would be retiring on March 31, and that the position and office would be phased out.
John Smol, a leading ecology professor and researcher with Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., said he found the news “troubling and worrisome.”
“Having someone in a position to advise the prime minister or a cabinet minister gave me more confidence in the process,” Smol said. “There’s so little of this contact between the scientific community and politicians. If you remove one of those major contacts, I don’t see it as a positive thing.”
Nothing surprising there. After all the last thing that and his , cohorts want is to have someone in office who can contradict their spurious crap.
