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Congratulations on your recent election to Parliament.

I am writing to ask you to defend the role of public science in safeguarding the health and safety of Canadians.

Recent events underline the need for a greater role for government oversight through strong public science. After the recent listeriosis outbreak and repeated incidents of unsafe food, toys and other products making onto the market and into homes and kitchens, I am no longer confident that all the necessary steps are in place to protect us.

Now I understand that the federal government is implementing further steps to transfer responsibility to industry and shut down the laboratories and facilities required to protect the public interest.

Whether it is to ensure that the food on our table, our children’s toys or the medications we depend on are safe, or it is to protect the environment and ensure our security, I believe that we need independent public scientists with the right tools to do the job.

I urge you to stand up for public science in Parliament; to oppose the transfer of the responsibility to protect public health and safety to industry and to support measures that will ensure that Canadians can depend on public science.

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The Right Honourable Stephen Harper / Le très honorable Stephen Harper / Prime Minister of Canada / Premier ministre du Canada
The Honourable Stéphane Dion / L'honorable Stéphane Dion / Leader of the Liberal Party/ Chef du Parti libéral
L'honorable Gilles Duceppe / The Honorable Gilles Duceppe / Chef du Bloc québécois / Leader of the Bloc Quebecois
The Honorable Jack Layton / L'honorable Jack Layton / Leader of the New Democratic Party / Chef du Nouveau parti démocratique
The Honorable Gary Goodyear / L'honorable Gary Goodyear / Minister of State (Science and Technology) / Ministre d'Etat (Sciences et Technologie)
The Honorable Jim Prentice / L'honorable Jim Prentice / Minister of the Environment / Ministre de l'Environment
The Honorable Lisa Raitt / L'honorable Lisa Raitt / Minister of Natural Resources / Ministre des Resources naturelles
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq / L'honorable Leona Aglukkaq / Minister of Health / Ministre de la Santé
The Honorable Gail Shea / L'honorable Gail Shea / Minister of Fisheries and Oceans / Ministre des Peches et Océans
The Honourable Gerry Ritz / L'honorable Gerry Ritz / Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food/ Ministre de l'Agriculture
Marc Garneau M.P. / député / Liberal Science Critic / Porte-parole du Parti libéral (Sciences)
Brian Masse M.P. / député / NDP Science Critic / Porte-parole du NPD (Sciences)
Paule Brunelle député / M.P. / Porte-parole du Bloc (Sciences) / Bloc Science Critic
Elizabeth May / Leader of the Green Party/ Chef du Parti vert