The Chicken Farmers of Ontario
marketing board has been stuck with a bill of $202,466.70 to compensate André Lamoureux for court costs related
to a lawsuit Lamoureux filed on behalf of French-language chicken farmers in
the Ottawa Valley.
Justice Michel Charbonneau said in his
decision handed down this week that it was a complicated and expensive case for
Lamoureux to file. There were two dozen French-speaking farmers involved.
The chicken board, in Charbonneau’s
words, “threw in the towel” and changed its regulations, effectively allowing
the French-speaking farmers to continue marketing their birds to processors in
Quebec despite an agreement the Quebec and Ontario marketing boards reached to
ban cross-border sales of live chickens.
Charbonneau awarded $170,000.00
inclusive of taxes for fees plus $32,221.02 for disbursements. That came to the
total of $202,466.70.
His decision clearly names the Chicken Farmers of Ontario as owing the money, although some media are reporting that the Association of Ontario Chicken Processors will pay.
They might as well since the two were big buddies in instituting the trading ban.
His decision clearly names the Chicken Farmers of Ontario as owing the money, although some media are reporting that the Association of Ontario Chicken Processors will pay.
They might as well since the two were big buddies in instituting the trading ban.
