The CCPA's law-student intern, Maria Gergin, has compiled a comprehensive account of the Harper government's crackdown on oppossing views. Her article, Silencing Dissent: The Conservative Record, includes a list of 79 community organizations, agencies, NGOs, research bodies and programs which have been cancelled, or whose funding has been cut or dramatically decreased and 14 civil servants, scientists, and organizations/watchdogs whose staff have been fired, publicly silenced, or who have resigned in protest.
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