What do you expect from a conservative government?

I hope the public is taking note. Harper and his illuminatis strike again. Science is muzzled so the truth will not surface. As mentioned in some previous comments, the health of salmon is one of the best indicators of the health of coastal ecosystems­. But according to Harper, let's just move along, as there is nothing to see here.

Since Harper was elected, he has baffled worker's rights to collectively bargain on two occasions, has prevented Toronto artist Franke James to exhibit her art in Europe, and has withdrawn two gorgeous canadian landscape paintings in the Foreign Affairs building and replaced it with a photo of the Queen. He also has studies dating back a few years showing the one of our country's main arteries, the Champlain Bridge, is decrepit to the point of being potentially dangerous.

I do not like to use this analogy, but I feel my country is being raped. Can we have a recall election as they do down in Wisconsin?

As usual, something smells fishy in the Harper government.

All "government" money is "taxpayer money" and unless there is national security at risk any research done on OUR behalf should be published without gov't interference. Harper's need to "contro;l" everything is nothing short of hiding the truth or massaging it so it becomes nothing more than propaganda.

People need to VOTE in this country and become more actively involved in the selection of candidates.

This is typical of both Harper's GeorgeW-like antigovernment agenda and the salmon farming industry through history.

Starting in Norway in the 70s and proceeding through Scotland, Ireland, Eastern Canada. and now the West Coast, wild salmon and salmonid populations have collapsed following the creation of salmon fish farms.

The multinational fish farming conglomerates have followed traditional big industry techniques - denial, tame pro-farming 'scientific' studies, ad campaigns, and so on to blunt attacks from those who make the connection and the megacorps have largely succeeded in their effort.

As usual, buying politicians has been the most effective tool in their box and the Harper crowd is VERY pro corporate.

History speaks for itself but science backs it up and explains it. Search on Dr. Jennifer S. Ford, Alexandra Morton, or simply 'impact of salmon farming on wild salmon' to find studies not censored by the Harperites.

Here in BC, salmon are suddenly hard to find and it's a crying shame as its still not too late to save the salmon runs.

Simple major steps include closed container farming and moving the fish farms away from known salmon migration routes.

Why would Harper listen to a scientist when he can get the goods directly through prayer?

The Harperites.............. Keeping you in the dark, for you're own good.

Conservatives.............Misleading and bleeding the nation, and they do it well..........SOF.

Hardly a surprise. Stephen Harper is a dangerous man, and doesn't think too highly of any version of the truth which isn't his.

The Cons are consistently anti-science, anti-environment and anti-conservation, all of which are opposed by their far-right religious ideologies.
Doesn't help the ordinary citizens much though, unfortunately.

Reeks of Bush silencing James Hansen and scrubbing the words "global warming" from all government websites......... Should we be surprised?