The reports fail to name the offenders in all cases except those applying to truckers.
In that exception, Nadeau Poultry Farm Limited of New Brunswick wins hands down - 20 fines totalling $52,000.
One of the surprises for me is the paucity of fines for meat packers - only five totalling $4,400. And that's assuming that all of the fines under the heading of Health of Animals Act were against meat packers; they could have been farmers, auction barns and a number of other people and companies dealing with livestock or poultry.
The reports posted for the first three quarters of fiscal 2010-11 indicate the CFIA collected $180,700 for 103 fines; there were 93 warnings issued.
So far the CFIA has failed to post the information for the final quarter of 2010-11 which ended March 31. One can only hope the snivel servants were all too busy doing more productive work.
The quarterly reports will become far more useful when we, the taxpaying public, can know the identities of repeat offenders. One set that should be of particular interest is violators of feed standards and regulations because feed is the biggest single cost of production.
