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Tainting a government
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XL Foods' Lakeside Packers plant at Brooks, Alta., on Monday, Oct. 1st, 2012, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Larry MacDougal (CP)
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As each day passes, I follow the tainted-beef saga with increasing anxiety, frustration and ire (New E. coli investigated, Oct. 6).
This is the second major food recall in four years. What is even more disgusting is that the infected beef from XL Foods wasn't discovered by the Canadian government but by the U.S. government. While the U.S. took immediate steps to protect its citizens, the Canadian government still allowed the meat to be sold for another two weeks.
At the height of the crises, Agricultural Minister Gerry Ritz was nowhere to be seen in the House of Commons where he should have been, reassuring Canadians and answering their questions.
Is the prime minister so insecure in his position as leader of the Conservative party that he must surround himself with incompetent ministers like Ritz? Clearly the government's free-market experiment at leaving industry to self-regulate has disastrously failed.
JAMIE BONNER
Winnipeg
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 10, 2012 A10
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