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    Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada kündigt Stellenabbau an


    Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada kündigt Stellenabbau an

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/agriculture-and-agri-food-canada-announces-closure-of-research-operations-jobs-cuts/

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    1. Empty-Paper2731 on

      I’m glad the government is finally going hard after the bloated public service and setting the country down the right path. Carney’s Department of Efficiency is making great things happen.

    2. NovaScotiaLoyalist on

      I was honestly quite surprised to hear the government shut down the Nappan Experimental Farm, given it’s in a traditionally Conservative riding that the Liberals were able flip by only a 2.5% margin in the last election.

      I’m not sure how the current Liberal MP for Cumberland-Colchester will be able to justify why this current government has plenty of money to waste on a buy-back program for guns that were legally purchased, but yet it doesn’t have the money to guarantee rural jobs in her rural riding.

      It seems like the urban/rural divide is still alive and well in Canadian politics unfortunately.

    3. throwitawaytothesea on

      Most AAFC operations are funded through external (i.e. industry) funding. I know one of the few concrete cuts the government announced in its fall budget was the abolition of the „Living Labs“ initiative for climate change-related agriculture activities, but it’s not clear if these facilities had anything to do with that.

    4. UnluckyRandomGuy on

      Another move that makes absolutely 0 sense, when you’re looking to cut public service jobs R&D in critical fields like food and agriculture are not the ones you go after. I can’t speak specifically about all the locations closing down but my wife worked at one of them between finishing her degree and getting her masters and the amount of highly trained individuals that will now be without jobs because of this is going to be crazy, we’re talking people with PHDs and masters with decades of experience in these fields.

      Especially after Carney explicitly talks about needing to increase autonomy in industries like food in his Davos speech „And as a result, many countries are drawing the same conclusions that they must develop greater strategic autonomy, in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains.“

    5. Godzilla52 on

      I think a big area that AAFC could use cuts in is biofuel mandates/subsidies. Not only is it a big waste of taxpayer dollars, but biofuel mandate & subsidies (especially for ethanol) are extraordinarily inefficient in that that they are bad for the environment, inflate global & domestic food costs and don’t actually make the significant contribution to emission reductions that their advocates claim etc.

      Ethanol subsidies especially are some of the most damaging government subsidies in Europe & North America’s policy wheelhouse and are largely tolerated because the average voter isn’t aware of the wide-reaching/unintended effects etc.

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