ARBUS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Consumer Protection, Listeriosis
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Chapter 4 - the role of government in business. Canadians, packages consist of tax reductions, grants, loans: also spend on old-age pensions, low-income families, workers" compensation, purchasing policies: purchasers of ordinary supplies, services and materials, services: direct and indirect activities, training and retraining the workforce. National policy: placed high tariffs on imports from us to protect canadian. Industrial policy: comprehensive, coordinated government plan to guide and revitalize manufacturing which had higher costs the economy. Nation wide bacterium linked to maple leaf meat products. Many died and dozens across the country got sick. Was it preventable? if it was picked up at maple leaf canada could deaths be. Once the provincial lab suspected that there might be a link, they should"ve been able. Current government policies contributed to certain safe guards; crack in the system. Maple leaf and the government confirmed that there was an inspector on site at that to do fingerprint" testing prevented? time.