Bullshit-Rich Harper Budget Slashes Environment To The Bone, Prattles "Clean, Safe & Sustainable"

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According to Aglukkaq, the government will support priority two so that Environment Canada "can deliver high quality weather services" as well as "expand and improve our severe weather warning system."

Yet Environment Canada's weather services will be cut by 17.6 per cent between now and 2016/17. Funding for timely weather forecasts and warnings, for example, will drop to $143 million from $166 million by 2017.

Extreme weather in Canada set a record $3 billion in costs last year. For the last five years in a row, extreme weather related to destabilizing climate change has racked up nearly $1 billion in damages. The budget for forecasts of the sea state, ice conditions and weather will also decline to $8 million from $12 million.

Minister Aglukkaq also promises that Environment Canada will develop and implement world-class regulations on pollutants, including carbon emissions, as well as "improve industry requirements for prevention, preparation, response and recovery efforts" on hazardous substances.

This will be undertaken despite 42.2 per cent cuts to pollution management and mitigation programs between now and 2016/17.

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http://thetyee.ca/News/2014/03/15/Environment-Canada-Cuts/

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1. So is this a good thing for Canada or is it starting to suck

there too?