Action of the Month: Bill C-27

The Conservatives would have us believe that Canada's Parliament has ceased to operate effectively. But not so. Bill C-27, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) Enforcemant Act, is on its way to Second Reading.

It increases the CFIA's power, while decreasing its accountability. The CFIA is one of Canada's most secretive government agencies, and generally speaks for big corporations, against small farmers.

If passed, Bill C-27 will authorize the CFIA to rewrite Canada's food and agriculture regulations, make it even harder for small farms and food processors to survive, and let the CFIA make agreements to lock us into the US regulatory system, controlled by the big US agri-food corporations. For details, see http://www.beyondfactoryfarming.org

Action: Write to your MP (see http://www.parl.gc.ca for details), and demand that the whole process be stopped. We need to expand organic farming, not agri-farming. For letters, write to MP, Houses of Parliament, Ottawa K1A 0A6

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