Writing in today’s Ottawa Citizen, Lawrence Martin observes that Canada’s academic are “missing in action“. That is, almost totally silent on the critical issues facing the country- everything from the “declining state of our parliamentary democracy” to the tepid response to the Federal Government’s muzzling of federal scientists and starvation of key research institutions (for more on this, check out Carol Linnitt’s scathing indictment of the Harper Government’s attack on science).
Martin’s point is a good one. …











