Reasons behind deaths now clear

[Oscar]

Reasons behind deaths now clear

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The Leader-Post Published: Thursday, August 28, 2008

The Saskatchewan Ministry of Health has now reported that the province's single confirmed case of listeriosis, an elderly woman living in a long-term care facility, has died.

This brings the total number of deaths from this outrageous and preventable incident to 12; six confirmed as listeriosis being the direct cause and six listed with listeriosis being a contributing or underlying factor, with no end in sight.

On August 22, 2008 the president of the CFIA inspectors union told the Globe & Mail that “...the agency is so short-staffed that food inspections and follow-up audits simply aren't taking place.”

This gives a truly dismal picture: whistle-blowers being fired, no funding for government inspectors, self-regulating industries, contaminated food on our grocery shelves, months before we know how many more will die . . .

Thanks to the Harper Government’s obsession with privatization and deregulation on one hand and $490 billion over the next 20 years to beef up our military on the other, it doesn’t take a genius to see that we can’t have it all.

Did somebody mention an election?

Elaine Hughes
Archerwill, SK