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[RalphH]

For ten years a study by Dr Kristi Miller-Saunders  was kept from the public under an order from former Prime Minister Harper, has finally be released to the public.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-federal-salmon-study-that-found-viruses-at-fish-farms-released-10/


"In March, the federal Information Commissioner ordered the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) to release the information that found pathogens among open-net fish farms in the province. The commissioner ruled that suppressing publication of the document was not justified. “The complaint is well-founded,” the commissioner said of a request to access the material.

Dr. Miller-Saunders, who was a key author of the 2012 report, expressed frustration that it took until March of this year for the findings to finally surface. The study found that fish-farmed salmon suffered from jaundice and anemia because of the highly contagious Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV). This virus is associated with organ failure in chinook ...

“It is really a travesty that the study could not come to light 10 years ago, and that the findings associated with this virus have been so contentious in Canada, as the role that this virus plays in disease development in salmon in other countries is not disputed,” Dr. Miller-Saunders, a senior research scientist in salmon genetics at the DFO’s Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, said in a statement to The Globe and Mail.

“This study marked the first discovery of PRV in North America, and the first study to associate this virus to disease in a Pacific salmon species,”

Moreover, sequence epidemiology, similar to what has been done to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in humans, shows that the virus originated in Norway and spread to North America some 30 to 35 years ago, and is being actively transmitted between farmed and wild salmon in B.C.,” she wrote in her statement."

Dr Miller Saunders noted that were disagreements among the groups participating in the study. Under DFO policy all authors must agree to the contents of the paper before it is released.

[Roderick]

Yes Harper liked to pick and choose what scientific studies got released.  He suppressed anything that went against the government narrative.  And it was across the board for any government departmental scientists, not just fisheries.  He considered these people not as independent scientists, but as employees that had to do what they were told... or else.