New Conservatives Shoot Another Messenger
I guess if you loved Mike Harris having two majority governments to completely strip Ontario of public safety services so he could parcel them off to his private drinking buddies, you must really love what Stephen Harper has been able to do to Canadian public safety services with just one minority:
CanadiansNotConsideredStakeholdersByTheirOwnGovernment
The document records the results of a November 2007 Treasury Board meeting where ministers approved the proposed cuts for the upcoming February budget. The changes will affect the inspection of animal feed mills, the certification of commercial seed, and eliminate mandatory label registration of meat and processed products. It also calls for consolidating three import service centres into one central facility and proposed spending cuts on equipment for the Avian Influenza Preparedness Program. In this case, the document was still confidential because the agency hasn't completed its consultations with the industry and other stakeholders on the changes, said St. Amand.
Something tells me that by "other stakeholders", they don't mean us.
