Should Canada Be Allowed To Continue With Genetic Engineering Without Federal Guidelines? Should Canada be allowed to continue with genetic engineering without In the past ten years there has been a rise in a relatively new science, a science that raises alot of controversial questions with very few answers. This science is called Genetic Engineering. In it's simplest terms it is the reordering of a genetic DNA sequence. It is a very controversial science because it leads into moral and ethical issues, as to what can be done with it and what cannot.