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MP's bid for ELA study dies behind closed doors
OTTAWA — A motion to get a House of Commons committee to investigate the wisdom of closing the Experimental Lakes Area was dismissed Tuesday. The motion, introduced by P.E.I. MP Lawrence MacAulay Tuesday, called for the House of Commons standing committee on fisheries and oceans to undertake a study of the ELA, including the contributions it makes to public policy, and the effect of closing it.
After MacAulay introduced the motion, the Conservative MPs on the committee proposed the committee move in camera. It did, and following that session, the motion is no longer on the agenda.
Because the process took place behind closed doors, committee members cannot say what happened to MacAulay's motion.
The federal government last May announced it would stop funding the ELA as of April 2013. The ELA is a group of 58 lakes in northwestern Ontario used for scientific experiments on whole bodies of water. The program is unique in the world and scientists from the United States, Europe and Australia have asked the federal government to keep it alive.
The government is trying to find another agency to take over the ELA. If it does not, the program will close. It sent public works staff to the site last month to evaluate what it would take to decommission it.
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