Prof. Sam LawlerNov 3

Just got an email about an open letter for professors to sign, because the Standing Committee on Science and Research just decided to grab personal demographic info and the EDI portions of tri-council research grant from the last *25 years*. This is really bad. Please please please let's not do anti-science and anti-EDI here in Canada?

Hard to parse all of this, and I don't want the open letter to get spammed so I'm not going to link. Here's the meeting notes: https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/SRSR/meeting-6/minutes

Minutes - SRSR (45-1) - No. 6 - House of Commons of Canada

Minutes - SRSR (45-1) - No. 6 - House of Commons of Canada

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from the letter: Please help us share this letter with your colleagues before November 4th. If you have applied for Tri-Council funding in the last 25 years, all of your data is at risk of being included and sent to an unnamed researcher and MPs on the committee.

If you disagree with this motion, please add your name to this letter and write to the following officials ASAP, and include a message that you don’t consent to your information being shared for this purpose:

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The Chair of the SRSR Committee (Salma Zahid, LIB, Scarborough-Centre Don Valley East; Salma.Zahid@parl.gc.ca)

The Health Minister Hon. Marjorie Michel (marjorie.michel@parl.gc.ca )

The Minister of Industry and Canada Economic Development Hon. Melanie Joly (melanie.joly@parl.gc.ca )

File a complaint with Canada's Privacy Commissioner: https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/report-a-concern/file-a-formal-privacy-complaint/

File a formal privacy complaint - Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Online forms to make formal complaints against a business, government departments

Show threadProf. Sam LawlerNov 3

I got my first email back from an MP about this, and they said out of respect for my privacy they can't share my letter with the committee.

If that ain't ironic I don't know what is. I need to take a break before I get myself in trouble by writing a really rude response to that email.

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