Time to Give Notice.

A significant number of Canadian cattle producers have been asking the federal government for compensation for damages resulting from the CFIA's gross incompetence in handling and preventing the BSE debacle.

Now, as I learn more about the government's plans to implement traceability, it appears to me that this is the perfect opportunity to give them notice that we will not co-operate with them unless our request for justice is first satisfactorily addressed.

Does it not seem hypocritical to the extreme that the CFIA wants to implement and impose traceability on the very producers whose livelihoods they destroyed through their own lack of due diligence?

Since when is bureaucracy exempt from accountability?

If you or I as a producer would mess up as badly as the CFIA did in the instance of the BSE situation, we would be bankrupted by the cost of defending ourselves.

Yet, the ones who so drastically mishandled the Mad Cow situation got off Scot free and are still ensconced in their comfortable offices wrting whimsical new dictates for those who are in the field actually producing a tangible good.

In order to protect and promote our interests, I call on all agricultural producers to immediately boycott all ONTRACE workshops until the government realizes and acknowledges its responsibility to the very people it supposedly serves.

Tell the organizers why this action is necessary. The government is NOT above being held responsible for its actions and ommissions.

This is the time and the place to let them know that.