Maple Lodge Farms Ltd. was hit with 22 fines totaling $122,400 for transportation violations caught by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
Information about the fines assessed between April 1 and June 30 this year is posted on the CFIA website.
Others that were fined in Ontario were Little Rock Trucking, caught 12 times and fined $45,000, and M&J Carriers, caught three times and fined $6,000.
In Atlantic Canada, Integrated Poultry Farms paid $11,800 for three infractions and L. Bilodeau & Fils $5,200 for two offices.
There were 19 fines totaling $127,000 assessed in Ontario for violations of Plant Protection Act provisions. The website does not say who was fined or why, but it’s likely that most, if not all of them, apply to moving wood out of quarantine zones established to contain infestations of ash borer.
