Canada muzzles scientists from opining on climate change?

I was made to believe, all this while, that this kind of thing happened only in Russia and the Muslim nations of the world.  Hmmmmm
Don't get me wrong ... I am of the firm belief that "global warming" which has now changed to "climate change" is not man-made, but I am also of the firm opinion that we should not muzzle anybody no matter what insane things they might say on the issue.  Doing so gives rise to the assumption that you want to hide something or you are afraid of people changing their own opinion or you are not tolerant of other viewpoints. 
Bad! 

From VICE:
....The exact details of this exchange  are hypothetical. But the strict rules preventing Environment Canada weather forecasters from speaking about climate change are not. “Our Weather Preparedness Meteorologists are experts in their field of severe weather and speak to this subject,” a federal spokesperson recently explained to investigative reporter Mike De Souza. “Questions about climate change or long-term trends would be directed to a climatologist or other applicable authority.”

Which seems reasonable enough, right? Well, until you consider the chain of events leading up to this latest revelation. Not long after Stephen Harper was first elected as Prime Minister in 2006, his Conservative government began restricting the access of senior federal scientists to journalists. Such scientists were now required to get permission from their political superiors before answering a media request. “Our scientists are very frustrated,” reads a leaked Environment Canada document.

That document also noted media coverage of climate science in Canada had, by 2010, dropped 80 percent since the restrictions came in. “Scientists have noticed a major reduction in the number of requests, particularly from high profile media, who often have same-day deadlines,” it read. “They feel the intent of the policy is to prevent them from speaking to media.” That opinion is shared by the scientific journal Nature, which in 2012 urged the Harper government “to set its scientists free.”

The situation hasn’t gotten any better since then. In fact, it may be getting even worse. “Rather than relenting under public scrutiny,” read a report this spring from the non-profit Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, which tracks in detail the Harper government’s apparent “muzzling” of scientists: “It seems that restrictions and the pace of cutbacks have only increased.” The report could cite “little evidence that conditions have improved since the first few accounts of muzzling in 2006.”

Which brings us right up to this week’s government revelation about Environment Canada weather forecasters. These meteorologists are among the few government experts granted relatively unrestricted access to the media. A 24-hour hotline allows journalists working on deadline to reach them directly without political supervision. So long, though, as such weather forecasters only “speak to their area of expertise,” the feds have now clarified, which means absolutely no discussion of climate change............