Joining some bad company.

[grassfarmer]

Following the example of the Nazis, Khmer Rouge, Taliban and other lunatic regimes the Harper's lot have taken to burning books in their attempt to destroy knowledge and science. See below.


"Media Release
NFU Denounces Lethbridge “Libricide”

August 27, 2015

Publically funded research and development is once again under attack with the trashing of the library at the Lethbridge Agriculture Canada Research Station. This is just the latest in a long line of government libraries where collections were tossed into dumpsters, burned or went to landfills.

The National Farmers Union (NFU) denounces the destruction of publically funded science research and knowledge. “You know destroying history is wrong. But that is what the Harper government is doing when they destroy these public institutions” said Ian Robson, NFU Board member from Manitoba. “How much – if any – of the information was saved in an electronic format, as the government claims?”

Anecdotal reports of declining requests for library material do not excuse the wholesale destruction of irreplaceable documents. The money saved by closing these institutions is paltry at best, and pales in comparison to the value of research now lost to future generations.

Jan Slomp, National Farmers Union (NFU) President, points out “When these libraries are closed, facts and knowledge are destroyed. If we eliminate facts and knowledge, what are we left with other than ideology and fiction?”

These libraries are, in fact, being closed and their collections destroyed. There has been little or no attempt at keeping records or attempting to preserve material at universities. Shutting down the Lethbridge agriculture research library is yet another attack on Canada’s internationally-respected research community.

For more information on research-related programs and public institutions that have been ended or dismantled, see "Turning off the lights in Canada” in the NFU Newsletter, May-June 2013.

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For more information:
Jan Slomp, NFU President: (403) 704-4364 or (250) 898-8223
Ian Robson, NFU Region 5 (Manitoba) Board member: (204) 858-2479"

[BreadWinner]

Boy that's some scary stuff ,good old fashioned book burning. The NFU: translation NDP farmers are only worried about public jobs in those libraries and nothing else.

[riders2010]

Well now were screwed our current ag minister won t have any pictures to refer to when someone asks him what some wheat or a cow looks like. And I don t think he finished colouring the old macdonald farm colouring book. What's he gonna do now?


Oh well Harper will need another senior advisor tomorrow after he throws the next one under the bus that got caught lieing at the Duffy trial.

[freewheat]

You lost me when I saw NFU.

[Oliver88]

Unionized library staff should have made electronic copies.

NFU likely being over dramatic with the library story.

[mustardman]

Breadwinner I'm guessing you were a big fan of Stunned News ?
You always come across as a wise ass like Ezra Levant

[mustardman]

Not the first time they burnt research papers. They did the same at the water research lab.

[mustardman]

Make that the Fisheries and ocean research

[katoe]

Harper doesnt need libraries or scientists cause he knows everything,that is except knowledge about the duffy ordeal.

[Braveheart]

This is like that Ground Hog Day movie. Harper haters start another thread. It's déjà vu, again!

[TOM4CWB]

Braveheart,

Do you think these folks have heard of the internet, Google, or Wikipedia?

Are any of the books really lost to civilization... what exactly did they clear off the shelves... to make room for new books perhaps?

[grassfarmer]

That's probably Harpers thinking Tom - like you not smart enough to realise these aren't "books" or stuff that's on Wikipedia this is raw agricultural research data. Complete and extensive records of all the work that has ever been done there and isn't recorded else where.
Tossed in the garbage by people either not smart enough to understand the implications or people trying to destroy fact based science.

[tweety]

When is the last time any of you went to a library to search for answers and do research on agriculture?

[wmoebis]

This isn't a public library it is the library's of public funded research centers.
Big difference there may not be any backup copies of publicly funded research.
Just like all the records out of the CWB offices. They were not the gov'ts to destroy.

[pourfarmer]

The type of data that was available from that institute was priceless! Years worth of studies, trails, etc. I guess Harper's masters in the AG private sector couldn't have that data/info publicly available for fear it would decrease shareholder value.