Silence of the Labs
Show: The Fifth Estate --> Season: 39 - Season 39
AirDate: 1/10/2014
Runtime: 60
Voting: 0 (0)

Overview: Scientists across the country are expressing growing alarm that federal cutbacks to research programs monitoring areas that range from climate change and ocean habitats to public health will deprive Canadians of crucial information. In the past five years the federal government has dismissed more than 2,000 scientists, and hundreds of programs and world-renowned research facilities have lost their funding.