Despite court cases and dozens of fines, Maple Lodge Farms
Ltd. continues to violate chicken-transportation standards.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency hit Maple Lodge with
three more fines totaling $23,400 in the second quarter of this year.
That brought the total to 50 fines and $314,600.
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. was fined $6,000 for one infraction
during the second quarter, bringing its total to two fines and $12,000.
Aliments Breton Inc., which trucks pigs out of Ontario to
its plant in Quebec, was fined 12 times during the quarter for $23,000,
bringing its total to 15 fines and $82,000.
There were 23 fines under plant protection regulations in
Atlantic Canada during the second quarter, three in Ontario and 19 in Western
Canada.
Those fines totaled $372,000 during the second quarter, more
than $200,000 from Atlantic Canada and $116,000 from the west.
In all, the federal government collected $547,800 in what it
calls “administrative monetary penalties”.
