The inquiry the
Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission launched into governance at the Egg
Farmers of Ontario marketing board is still ongoing.
The commission “has not yet reached any final
conclusions as the investigation is ongoing and continues to monitor the
related court cases in this matter,” wrote news media strategist Bianca
Jamieson of the communications branch of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture,
Food and Rural Affairs in response to a question about the status of the
investigation.
It
launched the investigation in May, 2013, after key players in the lawsuit
pressed it to hold an inquiry into the egg industry.
The
court cases include a lawsuit by Sweda Farms Ltd. against the egg board and egg
graders Burnbrae Farms and L.H. Gray & Son Ltd.
A court
has ruled that Burnbrae be dismissed from the action.
At one
point, the owner of Sweda Farms offered to drop the lawsuit against the egg
board if the board of directors would dismiss general manager Harry Pelissero.
The
commission has not revealed who it picked to conduct the inquiry or what has
been determined so far.
There is
no indication that court hearings for the lawsuit will begin any time soon. That
lawsuit began in 2005.
