 In 1992 and 1994, the National Research Council of Canada, a government scientific agency, was found by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to have systemically discriminated against Chander Grover, an expert in optics and photonics, on the basis of race, colour and national origin.In 1998 and 1999, Chopra, along with two co-workers, Drs.Margaret Haydon and Gerard Lambert, testified to the Senate of Canada's "Standing Committee on Agriculture and Forestry" that they were pressured by senior supervisors to approve multiple drugs of questionable safety, including Bovine Growth Hormone (rBST) and Baytril, which in the words of Chopra, "is even more controversial.