Dive Summary:
- The House of Commons has finally passed the new federal food safety regulations in Canada with a unanimous 308 to 0 vote.
- The bill was originally proposed by the Prime Minister's office and passed through the Senate earlier this month.
- Due in part to the XL Foods contamination issue earlier this year, the new regulations are stricter and more omnipresent in a concerted effort by the Canadian government to keep their citizens safe and their export partners happy.
From the article:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has won the unanimous consent of the House of Commons for Canada's new federal food safety law. With its earlier passage by the Senate, that means the Safe Food for Canadians Act, Bill S-11, now becomes law with the routine Royal Assent.â Unanimous votes among the 308 Members of Parliament (MPs) in Commons are not seen often in Ottawa and Canada's multiple parties rarely agree on anything but the crisis at the XL Foods plant in Brooks, Alberta helped bring unity for the food safety law sought by the Prime Minister's government...
