Environment Canada

Environment Canada: Sir Arthur Doughty , former chief archivist of Canada Maybe the muzzling of climate scientists did pay off for Harper and Tories who didn t want Canadians to spend too much time thinking about the climate: from 2007 to 2012, the volume of media coverage of climate change issues fell by 80 per cent, according to Toronto Star. Strategists from the communication branch were involved in Environment Canada deliberations on its contribution to the deficit action reduction plan from the beginning, said the records, released through Access to Information. They also showed that Environment Canada human resources branch managers stayed in touch with both the Prime Minister Office and the Privy Council Office and Of all national assets, archives are the most precious. They are the gift of one generation to another and the extent of our care of them marks the extent of our civilization. When the Harper government held closed-door meetings to talk about ways to cut Environment Canada budget by $60 million in the 2012 federal budget, Harper team made sure communications specialists were in the room. Records labelled secret advice to the minister were part of 500 pages of briefing material prepared for a new deputy minister when she arrived at Environment Canada a few months after the meetings. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.