Es geht nicht nur ums Geld

in der im Sommer von der Harper Regierung gefällten Entscheidung, Personalkosten einzusparen. Das Umweltschutzministerium muss 10% seiner Stellen, das macht 776 Wissenschaftler, einsparen. Was aufhören lässt, ist aber die Direktive nicht an die Öffentlichkeit dringen zu lassen in welchen Bereichen diese Stellen eingespart werden.

Wir ahnen es aber, nicht wahr?

By Kathryn May, Postmedia News January 11, 2012

OTTAWA — Environment Canada is sending notices to 60 scientists and other researchers that their jobs are being declared surplus.

Gary Corbett, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, confirmed his union was notified by the department that surplus notices would be going out this week. They are fallout from the department's announcement last August that it would be cutting or reassigning 776 people — which is about 10 per cent of the workforce.

But Corbett said the department is under "strict orders" not to reveal precisely what work these surplus scientists are doing. They broadly include engineers, scientists, biologists, climatologists, chemical analysts from across the country. They work in areas such as pollution, monitoring water quality, climate research.

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