Posted on 23/10/04
'Never before has the federal government consciously decided to let something go extinct'
Environment Minister Stéphane Dion has refused to place two critically endangered populations of sockeye salmon on the endangered-species list despite a rare special plea from the blue-ribbon scientific committee that advises him on the list.
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