Chilling - from the Toronto Sun:
Canada now investigates 'climate denial'
It’s like something out of George Orwell’s 1984.
Canada’s Competition Bureau, an arm’s length agency funded by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to the tune of almost $50 million annually, investigated three organizations accused of denying mainstream climate science for over a year, following a complaint from an environmental group.
A bit more - the complaint:
The complaint was filed by Ecojustice on behalf of six “prominent” Canadians, including former Ontario NDP leader and UN ambassador Stephen Lewis.
It accused three groups, Friends of Science, the International Climate Science Coalition, and the Heartland Institute of making false and misleading claims about climate change, including that the sun is the main driver of climate change, not carbon dioxide, and that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
When it launched its complaint in December, 2015, Ecojustice told the National Observer it would press the Commissioner of Competition to refer the matter to the Attorney-General of Canada for “criminal charges against the denier groups”.
Political groups and well connected politicians - not a scientist in the bunch. A perfect example of what happens when a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation (abbreviated as Quango) gains political power and is able to influence governmental operations. These mokes are not elected, have zero accountability for their actions and have no real scientific basis for fact. Yet, they are able to block and persecute three organizations that operate on a science-based/data-based manner.
Want to know how to fix what is wrong with government? Getting rid of these groups would be an excellent start.
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