8.29.2008
Listeriosis: What Harper Doesn't Want You To Know
I decided to post this here, since the news has been pretty wishy washy about the role of the Conservative government in the listeriosis outbreak. And the Conservatives are actually claiming that they haven't made food inspection cuts, they've just handed over most of the inspection process to the food industry itself. Um... (a) If you've handed over responsibility to someone else for something, one would assume that means you're spending less on it. So that means there HAVE been cuts. And (b) industry regulating itself ALWAYS works so well. 
So here's an article that I found interesting. Yes, it's from the Liberal Party but, out of everything I've seen and read about the outbreak, this makes a heck of a lot of sense to me...
So here's an article that I found interesting. Yes, it's from the Liberal Party but, out of everything I've seen and read about the outbreak, this makes a heck of a lot of sense to me...
The Conservative government continues to show a blatant disregard for Canadians with its secrecy and unaccountability around the listeriosis crisis, Liberal Public Health Critic Carolyn Bennett said this week.
"Our warnings last week that cuts to critical food inspections will endanger the health and safety of Canadians have proven to be valid," said Dr. Bennett.
"First it was a leaked Treasury Board document revealing the Conservatives' secret plans to make cuts at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and now it's the head of the union that represents food inspectors telling us that some of these cuts have already taken place. And now we have had multiple deaths linked to this tainted meat crisis.
"The death toll continues to rise and people continue to be hospitalized from tainted meat, and yet the Conservative government is misleading Canadians about its plan to abandon critical food safety inspections. This government's cavalier attitude towards Canadians' health is astonishing," she said. "Food inspectors should be inspecting food, not paper."
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