Agriculture minister refutes accusations about Animal Health

Agriculture minister refutes accusations about Animal Health

Source: comoxvalleyrecord

6/5/2012

Comox Valley MLA/B.C. Agriculture Minister Don McRae says journalists and activists won’t be muzzled — or imprisoned — for reporting diseased animals at fish farms or other agricultural operations, as suggested by critics of the Animal Health Act (Bill 37).

“Some people wish to interpret the act as if they were to speak about it as private citizens to the media that they would go to jail, and that wasn’t in the act at all,” McRae said of the legislation, which was not passed before the

spring legislative sitting expired last week.

He notes Section 16 of the act says ‘person,’ which refers to those who inspect or administer

the act. The next section lists five categories of people.

“Everybody else is totally fine,” McRae said. “We also do have a Charter of Rights

and Freedoms which kind of trumps a whole bunch of laws anyways.”

McRae said the Animal Health Act, which has not been updated since 1948, does

not reflect modern disease and government’s ability to react to it.

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