As a Canadian who was living in Canada at the time the previous government enacted said policy, I don&#x27;t find this story overblown at all, and am very happy to see the new government moving so quickly to remediate this problem. There was a lot of public outrage at the time, especially given that this &quot;muzzling&quot; was seen as another part of the Harper government&#x27;s systematic undermining of climate science in Canada.