I heard an interesting story regarding Gerry Ritz when the listeria story broke. The Cons apparently had Gerry in meetings in the US to ask the American food safety regulators to “lower their standards” so that Canada’s standards wouldn’t be the lowest in the world.
Globe and Mail September 17, 2008
There’s a big, wonderful, dangerous world out there. You’d never know it from Canada’s election campaign.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080916.wcosimp17/BNStory/specialComment
I heard an interesting story regarding Gerry Ritz when the listeria story broke. The Cons apparently had Gerry in meetings in the US to ask the American food safety regulators to “lower their standards” so that Canada’s standards wouldn’t be the lowest in the world.
Just disgusting!!