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<h1 class="yiv1315993472title">Coast to Coast Seminar Series - Abstracts</h1>
<h2><a rel="nofollow" name="30002" href="">Coast to Coast Seminar Series: "Oil & Fish
Tails: Cuts to Canada's environment and the changing face of
Metro Vancouver's oil and gas industry" Live at SFU</a></h2>
<h3>Mr Finn Donnelly and Mr Kennedy Stewart</h3>
<h3>Members of Parliament</h3>
<div>Date: Nov 13, 2012<br>
Time: 11:30 - 12:30<br>
Room: ASB10900<br>
WebSite: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://irmacs.sfu.ca/events/coast-coast-abs">Click
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<h3>Abstract</h3>
<div>Donnelly: Two of the strongest environmental laws in the country,
the Fisheries Act and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act,
were significantly altered with the recent passing of the federal
omnibus budget bill. Join us for a discussion about the
ramifications for Canada's fishery and our natural environment.
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Stewart: Where every country needs a national science policy to
further scientific advancement, there is an inherent tension
between scientific practice and government science policy. Both
the natural and social sciences require researchers be free to ask
questions and employ scientific tools such as peer-review to
discover answers. However as science almost always requires public
funding, governments will always attempt to steer scientific
endeavor to meet political objectives. With this in mind, any
national science policy needs to find the right balance between
funding levels and the extent to which government controls the
scientific agenda. This presentation more fully outlines this
tension and explains the institutions and players found in the
current Canadian science ecosystem. It then moves to explain
recent changes to Canada's approach to science, using current
changes to the National Research Council as an example. The goal
of this presentation is to generate discussion as to the future
direction of Canada's National Science Policy.<br>
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<div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://c2c.irmacs.sfu.ca/coast-coast-seminar-locations">http://c2c.irmacs.sfu.ca/coast-coast-seminar-locations</a><br>
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<div>Can be viewed from:<br>
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<div>University of Waterloo<span> - 374, Physics </span> (RSVP to <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:info@sharcnet.ca" target="_blank" href="mailto:info@sharcnet.ca">info@sharcnet.ca</a>)<br>
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<div>Wilfred Laurier University - 113, SR (RSVP to <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:info@sharcnet.ca" target="_blank" href="mailto:info@sharcnet.ca">info@sharcnet.ca</a>)</div>
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