Larry Powell Powell is a veteran, award-winning journalist based in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. He specialize in stories about agriculture and the environment. For decades, he worked for broadcast outlets in all four provinces in western Canada. This included a 5 years stint as Senior Editor for CBC Radio News in Saskatchewan. He is authorized to receive embargoed news releases on important, global stories, through the Science Media Centre of Canada, the Royal Society, Nature Research and the World Weather Attribution Network. He's a member of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists and a past member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, Powell joined an international team of writers providing articles for the Swiss-based online journal, Focusing on Wildlife - celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. In June, 2014, he was a panelist at a world conference in Winnipeg entitled Holding
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The Environment role is a very important, perhaps the most important of all portfolios within our government's.
If Leona Aglukkaq had the will and fortitude to apply herself to protecting Canada's environment, as it must and should be protected, I am afraid she would not last long in the Harper regime. There are so many pit bull Industry/Resources ministers that will oppose her concerns and cares as they ambitiously seek development progress, at any cost, and to hell with any needed protection.
As the sixth Environment Minister in the Harper Conservative Government in nine years. I would wish her all the best and success in her undertaking, but I'm afraid that if she attempts and proceeds to do, what is so desperately needed, candidates number seven and eight are waiting in the wings, just off stage, to replace her.
It is now, my conclusion that she has been assimilated by the Harper regime and has simply become a figure head in a role that is so very desperate of leadership and action.