CA: Drug dogs get pink slip

[Potemkin]

Things are so tough in Canada even the drug dogs are getting pink slips.



http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...cuts-dogs.html

N.S. drug dogs getting pink slips in job cuts
CBC News
Posted: Apr 12, 2012 9:28 PM AT
Last Updated: Apr 12, 2012 11:03 PM AT
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Bret, a Halifax-based Labrador retriever for the Canada Border Services Agency, will be affected by the federal job cuts. Bret, a Halifax-based Labrador retriever for the Canada Border Services Agency, will be affected by the federal job cuts. (CBC)

Dozens of employees at the Canada Border Services Agency are among the latest federal workers in Halifax to receive notices that their jobs are on the line.

The Public Service Alliance of Canada said 26 employees at the Canada Border Services Agency got notices on Thursday. The agency is also losing two dogs used to sniff out drugs, explosives and other contraband material.

Bret, 6, and Griffin, 7, are the two Halifax-based Labrador retrievers whose handlers were notified their jobs will be eliminated.

[CanadaSue]

Yeah - post budget, federal pink slips were issued this week. Cuts in employee numbers were necessary but I haven't taken time to analyse WHO was cut from what departments. The little I've seen has me uneasy. I'll be taking a closer look tomorrow after some much needed sleep.