Reassurance is the driving force behind a national program that traces food from the farm to the grocery store using computer-based information systems.
The discovery last May of a case of mad cow disease in Alberta sparked a massive search by officials from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and the Alberta government to find the origin and history of the infected cow.
Even a well prepared public-private partnership needs a tune-up from time to time. So what does the public service manager need in a P3 toolbox to get the arrangement humming again?
Once upon a time, back in the mid-1990s, there were great expectations for partnerships between the public and private sectors in electronic service delivery.