Via Aaron Wherry's excellent political blog at Macleans.ca: Food safety: The cuts and the questions. Click through for the full post and a lot of links. Excerpt:
The Parliamentary Budget Officer looks at government funding for food safety.
The new PBO examination of budgetary expenditures by strategic outcome and program activity says planned spending for “food safety and biosecurity risk management systems” at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is projected to be reduced by almost $32 million, to approximately $85 million in 2012-13 from more than $116 million in 2011-12.At the CFIA, planned federal spending on the “food safety program” is projected to shrink almost $16 million, to $315 million in 2012-13 from $331 million in 2011-12, according to the PBO analysis, which was released Wednesday with a report on the government’s first-quarter spending trends.
