Carleton University researcher Andy Adler is warning that Premier Doug Ford’s vow to ban all medical testing on cats and dogs will have a chilling effect on medical research in Ontario.

It already has.

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Adler, a Canada Research Professor of biomedical engineering, shut down his animal research program at Carleton this summer after Ford vowed to ban medical research on dogs and cats.

Ford said the province would start “hunting down” researchers involved with medical testing on cats or dogs in response to a report from the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) on canine research at St. Joseph’s Hospital in London, Ont. Dogs there were being subjected to induced heart attacks that lasted up to three hours as part of scientific research into human cardiac injury,

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