The head of Canada’s Agriculture Union says meat inspectors in Northern Alberta have resumed daily inspections in domestic plants nearly two years after staffing shortages forced the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to cut back — a reduction in oversight government officials fervently and repeatedly insisted never happened.
Inspectors, AU President Bob Kingston told iPolitics Thursday, have been ordered to resume daily inspections in domestic meat processing plants in Northern Alberta effective October 11. The new orders, he said, come despite ongoing staffing shortages in the region.
“So, they’re hard-pressed to figure out how they (the inspectors) are going to actually do it,” he said.
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