There are no dinosaurs in the Conservative Party...

... they all died out in the Great Flood:

Canada's science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won't say if he believes in evolution.

“I'm not going to answer that question. I am a Christian, and I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate,” Gary Goodyear, the federal Minister of State for Science and Technology, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail.

A funding crunch, exacerbated by cuts in the January budget, has left many senior researchers across the county scrambling to find the money to continue their experiments.

Some have expressed concern that Mr. Goodyear, a chiropractor from Cambridge, Ont., is suspicious of science, perhaps because he is a creationist.

When asked about those rumours, Mr. Goodyear said such conversations are not worth having.

From the Globe and Mail. Putting someone who might be a creationist in as science minister says a lot about the Cons' attitude towards science (some would say that the fact that he's a chiropractor only adds to the concern). And if you like their attitude towards science, you'll love their attitude towards human rights:

A longtime Conservative who opposes same sex marriage has been appointed to the tribunal that decides whether gays get refugee status in Canada.

Doug Cryer , a former director of public policy for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, has also publicly defended the right of churches to denounce homosexuality.

“Doug Cryer of the EFC said the church has a right to say that homosexual behaviour is sinful, just as it can say that adultery is sinful,” according to a November 2006 edition of CanadianChristianity.com.

“It is part of God’s teaching,” Cryer told the publication.

Cryer is among a dozen people appointed by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney last month to Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board — an independent administrative tribunal that hears applications for refugee status in Canada.

Among the many grounds for refugee status is the fear that someone will be hurt or killed in their home country because they are homosexual.

From the Portage Daily Graphic. Just another reason why the Harper government cannot be allowed to continue.