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Podcast: CANADALAND
Episode: Carney Cuts The Scientists Who Test For Toxins
Description: More than 24,000 federal public servants have received notices that their jobs could be at risk. That is on top of the 9800 public service employees who were already let go last year. Host Sam Konnert takes us inside the government, specifically, inside a single lab within Environment and Climate Change Canada. A lab tasked with making sure our water is clean and our food is plastic-free. A lab that could go from nine PhD-level scientists, down to one.Β What happens to the country when these workers get cut, and entire labs are decimated? Who pays the price?