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Luc Pomerleau's union says he was fired from his public service job not because of what he did, but because of what he found.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency employee came across a Treasury Board document on a shared CFIA computer last May. According to the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, Mr. Pomerleau's union, the document contained information relating to “strategic programs review” in which departments and agencies looked at cutting about 5 per cent of their operating budgets.
Union president Michèle Demers said yesterday the document outlined a way the CFIA could make such cuts: by handing responsibility for the labelling of products over to industry. ...
Ms. Demers contends that Mr. Pomerleau was fired because showing the union the changes outlined in the document effectively stripped the CFIA of its ability to “de-dramatize” the consequences those changes could have on the union and Canadians.
“The decision, the reaction of the agency was completely outrageous,” she said. “They needed a scapegoat.”