......have someone read it to you.
Or so says a left wing blogger.
So, there's no e.coli danger. It didn't happen? C'mon. You're more intelligent than that. Left - right ! What's it matter when people are getting sick due to negligence and underfunding safety.
The cons just happen to be in power. Libs would probably be just as do nothing.
But his blog reads more like political BS claiming that it is all the fault of 2 conservative governments. It is really the fault of management at the plant and no one else.
I think that it's a (geo) political hot-potatoe.. Every so often there's an health related issue with California spinach, Chinese food products or Canadian meats.
The global community acts horrified for a couple of weeks and things smooth out soon after.
I think that it's a (geo) political hot-potatoe.. Every so often there's an health related issue with California spinach, Chinese food products or Canadian meats.
The global community acts horrified for a couple of weeks and things smooth out soon after.
... rabble are a bunch of frickin' commies ...
... Rabble are a bunch of frickin' commies ...
How is it the gov'ts fault XL foods didn't follow proper safety programs?
Oh ya, it's always enforcements fault.
... rabble are a bunch of frickin' commies ...
Who made that claim? I certainly didn't.
This is obviously a straw man argument.
Read the link in the OP before you respond.
The Harper government's reaction to this problem was a screw up from the beginning and their actions (and lack of action) made the situation worse.
The Minister responsible should have admitted a problem exists right away. The Harper government should have issued an order to stop all food from leaving the plant to limit the scope of a possible recall. Then they should have sent in an inspection team in to ascertain the scope of the problem and supervise the cleanup. Food production only resumes after all the problems have been resolved.
The Harper government screwed up.
... rabble are a bunch of frickin' commies ...
Bang on Captain. Hard to focus on one thing for very long when they keep letting the dogs loose.
Tax: If was the cons who reduced the number of inspectors. " More inspectors don't necessarily mean compliance"........We'll never know.
Probably a union shop, same as in Walkerton.
The number of government inspectors is irrelevant if they are not doing their job properly.It is only because we have a stupid legal system that government inspectors are even required. The proper method is to make senior management personally responsible so they will be sued into personal bankruptcy if such a problem occurs.
Probably a union shop, same as in Walkerton.
I'm sure if it was a union shop, more attention would have been focused on the commission members
Yep, them pesky "UNION BOSSES" would have been hung out to dry by the kind hearted C E O'S.
I'm thinking more like the union would have kept the fact that the Commission had water reports documenting the positive bacT hits, in the public eye. Most people know how badly the workers screwed up but not many understand just how bad management dropped the ball.
this article is about how the Harper government failed to manage the problem competently, not about the benefits of socialism, unions. This article does claim Harper government caused the problem, although it does say that cutting government inspector positions may have been a contributing factor.
The main focus of that article is how the Harper government reacted to the problem... Instead of limiting the scope of the problem, they tried to ignore it and hope it went away. Instead they should have immediately went o damage control mode and ordered the plant's closure.
This crisis didn't just hurt XL foods. It has affected the entire Canadian beef industry from production through to sales.
If the Harper government stopped production as soon as the problem was detected by US inspectors we wouldn't have a 2000+ product recall as a result of tainted meat going through the production chain.
But when the company did not practice safety protocols and continued to move tainted meat into the food chain, then its the government's responsibility to intervene. That did not happen in a timely manner and as a result the problem grew.
The Harper government was asleep at the switch and therefore deserves a good deal of credit for making this a much bigger crisis than it should have been.