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OTTAWA —
The union representing food inspectors says the cuts, to be
implemented over three years to help save the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
$56 million in operating costs by 2014-15, will reverse increases to the
inspection force that were put in place in response to the deadly listeriosis
outbreak in 2008.
"This decision will make the inspector shortage worse,
not better. And because the government has failed to consult its own
inspectors, they are cutting food safety blindly with little understanding of
the consequences," Bob Kingston, president of the Agriculture Union of the
Public Service Alliance of Canada, said Wednesday.
Overall, the food-inspection agency will be cutting 308
employees as a result of the cuts announced in the Conservative government' s budget, unveiled last month.
6 comments:
Nowhere does the story indicate how many inspectors will still be employed. This is a very important point. No?
I wouldn't expect a union rep. to say anything differently.
So,where would you cut?
5 years from now, a new government will be in power and there will be an outbreak of e coli or some other such thing. The irony is that the new government will be blamed for the outbreak and the Conservatives will pile on, as if this decision has nothing to do with anything.
Remember Walkerton.
It's deregulation by cutback. It's happening in the US too. A response to lobbyists in the food industry.
I do remember Walkerton; All to well.
Walkerton had nothing to do with cutbacks. Walkerton was a result of a lack of accountability. The so called inspectors were incompetent drunks.
Not well enough to have read the report apparently:
"Justice Dennis O'Connor's report also points to the region's public utilities managers and Ontario government cutbacks as contributors to the tragedy."
I don't think that cutting 100 Food Safety Inspectors will help them. I also heard that they are also doing the same in the US like Anonymous#3 said. What are they thinking, seriously?
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