NotDennisBonvie 🇨🇦

(1/2) #Petition in #Canada to immediately suspend AAFC staff terminations and to continue operating the #research centers, research #farms and the Organic and Regenerative Research Program

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7214

Whereas:

#Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (#AAFC) plans to close 7 research facilities in #Alberta, #Saskatchewan, #Ontario, #Quebec and #Novascotia.

The cuts will irreparably harm public plant breeding, the foundation of Canada’s international success;

Petition e-7214 - Petitions

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(2/2) The cuts will create critical gaps that cannot be relocated to other facilities or carried out at non-AAFC institutions including: scientific expertise; long-term studies, multi-stage variety development; multi-site variety registration data; organic and regenerative crop and livestock research; and

The cuts will reduce Canada’s competitiveness, resilience and food security, increase reliance on foreign science and seed, increase costs, and waste decades of public and producer investment.