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The latest provincial budget outlines significant reductions to public services, including privatization. These aren’t just budget lines – these are real people and real services at risk. Most alarming of the cuts is the full privatization of provincially-delivered veterinary care. 

Provincial veterinarians will be phased out of work. This includes all veterinary lab and field services, medical care, foreign animal disease control, inspection and testing – meaning almost all provincially-employed veterinarians are expected to lose their jobs.

This won’t save the province money. Farmers will either face higher out-of-pocket costs at private clinics, or the government will end up paying more through contracts. Either way, New Brunswickers lose.

That’s why, on March 31, PIPSC members are marching in Fredericton. We must save our vets and demand the cuts be reversed.