Hundreds of federal programs and world renowned research facilities have been shut down or had their funding reduced by the federal government. This list was compiled by the Canadian Association of University Teachers and the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada. If you are a federal government scientist or researcher and your program, project, or research facility has been affected by the cuts we would like to hear from you, please comment below or send us an email at fifth@cbc.ca

Environmental Emergency Response Program

Urban Wastewater Program

Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences

Smokestacks Emissions Monitoring Team

Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission

National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy

Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Winnipeg Office

Municipal Water and Wastewater Survey

Environmental Protection Operations

Compliance Promotion Program

Action Plan on Clean Water

Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) (PEARL lost its $1.5 million annual budget when the government stopped funding the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Science (CFCAS) . In May 2013, the federal government announced the facility would get a $ 1 million a year grant for the next five years. But according to Professor Tom Duck, of Dalhousie University, with the loss of CFCAS, atmospheric and climate research will be funded at less than 70 per cent of the level it was funded at in 2006.)

Sustainable Water Management Division

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program

Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan

Chemicals Management Plan

Canadian Centre for Inland Waters

Clean Air Agenda

Air Quality Health Index

Species at Risk Program

Weather and Environmental Services

Substance and Waste Management

Ocean Contaminants & Marine Toxicology Program

Experimental Lakes Area (Under the Bill-38 the ELA was shut down. As of January 2014, the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the Ontario government are working out an agreement with the federal government to take over the facility.)

DFO Marine Science Libraries

Centre for Offshore Oil & Gas Energy Research

Kitsilano Coast Guard Station

St. Johns Marine Traffic Centre

St. Anthony’s Marine Traffic Centre

Conservation and Protection Office

Conservation and Protection Office (L’anse au Loup, NL)

Conservation and Protection Office (Trepassey, NL)

Conservation and Protection Office (Rigolet, NL)

Conservation and Protection Office (Burgeo, NL)

Conservation and Protection Office (Arnold’s Cove, NL)

Conservation and Protection Office (Baddeck, NS)

Conservation and Protection Office (Canso, NS)

Conservation and Protection Office (Sheet Harbour, NS)

Conservation and Protection Office (Woodstock, NB)

Conservation and Protection Office (Port Hood, NS)

Conservation and Protection Office (Wallace, NS)

Conservation and Protection Office (Kedgwick, NB)

Conservation and Protection Office (Montague, PEI)

Conservation and Protection Office (Inuvik, NT)

Conservation and Protection Office (Rankin Inlet, NU)

Conservation and Protection Office (Clearwater, BC)

Conservation and Protection Office (Comox, BC)

Conservation and Protection Office (Hazelton, BC)

Conservation and Protection Office (Quesnel, BC)

Conservation and Protection Office (Pender Harbour, BC)

Atlantic Lobster Sustainability Measures Program

Species-at-Risk Program

Habitat Management Program

DFO Institute of Ocean Sciences (Sidney, BC)

Freshwater Institute - Winnipeg

Oil Spill Counter-Measures Team

Maurice-Lamontagne Institute’s French language library

Canadian Coast Guard Management

Water Pollution Research Lab (Sidney, BC)

Water Pollution Research Lab (Winnipeg, MB)

Water Pollution Research Lab (Burlington, ON)

Water Pollution Research Lab (Mont-Joli, QC)

Water Pollution Research Lab (Moncton, NB)

Water Pollution Research Lab (Dartmouth, NS)

St. Andrew Biological Station

Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility

Ice Information Partnership

Motor Vehicle Fleet

Inshore Rescue Boat Program

Species at Risk Atlantic Salmon Production Facilities

Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization

At-Sean Observer Programs

Financial Management Services

Pacific Forestry Centre, Satellite Office (Prince George, BC)

Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing

Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program

Isotopes Supply Initiative

Clean Energy Fund

Sustainable Development Technology Canada – Next Generation Biofuels Fund

Program of Energy Research and Development

Pacific Forestry Centre

Astronomy Interpretation Centre – Centre of the Universe

MRI research, Institute Biodiagnostics

Polar Continental Shelf Progam

Canadian Neutron Beam Centre

Aquatic Ecotoxicology, Aquatic and Crop Resource Development

Molecular Biochemistry Laboratory, Aquatic and Crop Resource Development

Plant Metabolism Research, Aquatic and Crop Resource Development

Human Health Therapeutics research program

Automotive and Surface Transportation program

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research

Environmental Risks to Health program

Substance Use and Abuse program

First Nations and Inuit Primary Health Care program

Health Infrastructure Support for First Nations and Inuit program

Interim Federal Health Program

Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration

Environmental Knowledge, Technology, Information, and Measurement program

Science, Innovation and Adoption program

Rural and Co-operatives Development program

Farm Debt Mediation Service

Centre for Plant Health (Sidney, BC)

National Aboriginal Health Organization

First Nations Statistical Institute

Cultural Connections for Aboriginal Youth

First Nations and Inuit Health

Fertilizer Pre-Market Efficacy Assessment program

Enforcement of Product of Canada label

RADARSAT Constellation Mission

Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuarapik Research station

Kluane Lake Research Station

Bamfield Marine Science Centre

Microfungal Collection and Herborium

Biogeoscience Institute

Coriolis II research Vessel

OIE Laboratory for Infectious Salmon Anaemia

Canadian Phycological Culture Centre

Brockhouse Institute

Polaris Portable Observatories for Lithospheric Analysis and Research

Mount Megantic Observatory

Smoke Stacks Emissions Monitoring Team

National Roundtable on the Environment and Economy

Environmental Protections Operations Compliant Promotion Program,

Sustainable Water Management Division,

Environmental Effects Monitoring program,

Fresh Water Institute

Canadian Centre for Inlands Waters (Burlington)

World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre

Environmental Emergencies Program

Parks Canada

Montreal Biosphere

Statistics Canada

Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences

Laboratory for the Analysis of Natural and Synthetic Environmental Toxicants

National Ultrahigh-field NMR Facility for Solids

IsoTrace AMS Facility

Canadian Phycological Culture Centre

Canadian Resource Centre for Zebrafish Genetics

Neuroendocrinology Assay Laboratory at the University of Western Ontario

Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding

Portable Observatories for Lithospheric Analysis and Research Investigating (POLARIS) (Ontario)

Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research

St. John’s Centrifuge Modelling Facility

Quebec/Eastern Canada high field NMR facility

Félix d’Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses

Canadian Neutron Beam Laboratory

The Compute/Calcul Canada

Center for Innovative Geochronology

Biogeoscience Institute

Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

Pacific Northwest Consortium Synchrotron Radiation Facility

Centre for Molecular and Materials Science at TRIUMF

Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research

Canadian Cosmogenic Nuclide Exposure Dating Facility

Atlantic Regional Facilities for Materials Characterization

The Canadian SuperDARN/PolarDARN facility