Orders from the new Solicitor-General Department inspectors can be appealed to a new body, the Animal Care Review Board.
The government answered a question from Ontario Farmer saying:
“An owner or custodian of an animal may appeal the following to the Board within five business days after receiving notice of them:
1. An order from an animal welfare inspector.
2. A decision by an animal welfare inspector to remove an animal from a place.
3. A decision to take an animal into the Chief Animal Welfare Inspector’s care."
While the Solicitor General Department is in charge, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs is training the inspectors.
There will be about 100 of them to cover the province, the same number as in Manitoba. That has prompted critics to say Ontario needs more than 100 inspectors.
