Canadian Food Inspection Agency: Inspection

Food Safety Dept: 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, according to Montreal Gazette. 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 and oTTAWA - Canada's food-safety inspection force will shrink by as many as 100 inspectors - cuts the workers' union says will have an impact on the safety of food purchased by Canadians. 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.