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{
"time": "2012-10-18 11:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Hedy Fry",
"fr": "L'hon. Hedy Fry"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3007836\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the hon. member makes a point. The government members may stand in the House and tell everyone until their noses grow that they have not cut, but the Parliamentary Budget Officer, appointed by the government to look at these kinds of issues, said that $16 million were directly cut from food safety, $56.1 million in cuts to the CFIA and that 200 inspectors were laid off in March. Of the 40 inspectors and 6 vets at the XL Food plant right now, only 3 of the 46 inspectors and vets were actually versed in the compliance clarification system and the other 43 were paper pushers and not completely trained.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3007837\" data-originallang=\"en\">How do we expect people to do their jobs if they are not appropriately trained and there are cuts? How can we ask the food inspectors to take the hit for this? The minister has to take the hit. The three ministers in this House responsible for Walkerton in Ontario, where people died, are now passing it on to the rest of the country. It is not acceptable.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3007836\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e a raison. Les d\u00e9put\u00e9s minist\u00e9riels peuvent dire \u00e0 tout le monde \u00e0 la Chambre qu'ils n'ont pas fait de compressions jusqu'\u00e0 ce leur nez s'allonge. Cependant, le directeur parlementaire du budget, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9 par le gouvernement pour s'int\u00e9resser \u00e0 ce genre de dossiers, a dit que le secteur de la salubrit\u00e9 des aliments avait subi des compressions directes de 16 millions de dollars, que l'ACIA avait subi des compressions de 56,1 millions de dollars et que 200 inspecteurs avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 mis \u00e0 pied en mars. Parmi les 40 inspecteurs et 6 v\u00e9t\u00e9rinaires qui travaillent actuellement \u00e0 l'usine de XL Foods, seules 3 personnes connaissent bien le syst\u00e8me de v\u00e9rification de la conformit\u00e9, tandis que les 43 autres ne sont que des gratte-papiers dont la formation est incompl\u00e8te.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3007837\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comment pouvons-nous esp\u00e9rer que les gens fassent leur travail s'ils ne re\u00e7oivent pas une formation ad\u00e9quate et s'il y a des compressions? Comment pouvons-nous demander aux inspecteurs des aliments d'assumer la responsabilit\u00e9 de cette crise? C'est le ministre qui doit le faire. Les trois ministres responsables de la trag\u00e9die de Walkerton, en Ontario, au cours de laquelle des gens ont perdu la vie, rejettent maintenant le bl\u00e2me sur le reste du pays. C'est inacceptable.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2012/10/18/hedy-fry-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/hedy-fry/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3102/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7723593",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion--Food Safety",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 La salubrit\u00e9 des aliments"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2012/10/18/",
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}
}