The proposal to eliminate Canadian agricultural food inspections has nothing to do with the costs of these inspections.
It has only to do with reducing the level and intensity of any inspections so that our food quality comes down to the same inferior quality of American food products. All one has to do is compare the number of deaths and illnesses due to bad foods in the U.S. to the same numbers in Canada.
As many U.S. television investigative programs have consistently shown over the years, the U.S. food inspections are controlled by the companies they are inspecting. The fact that inspectors who insist on high cleanliness standards are either let go or transferred to another plant shows that clean food is not the priority but high profits.
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Is this what we as Canadians wish for our food quality? We have one of the highest standards of food quality in the world. Are we going to start to count our deaths and illness in the thousands due to food poisonings? Or are we going to lead the way with high quality foods as we have done for so many years?
If Canadians don’t speak up about this, the government will yield to the wishes of the U.S. lobby, and Canada will be flooded with poorer quality U.S. foods. Speak now or forever lose your right to the high quality food we now enjoy.
– Mervyn Coles,
Nelson, B.C.
