CANADA BEEF PACKERS
May 1st, 2004
BY MONICA DOBIE
TWO major Canadian meat-packing firms have been threatened with daily CDN $250,000 fines if they miss a May 20 deadline for producing financial details demanded by Canada's House of Commons, investigating the how CDN$1.6 billion of aid during the recent BSE crisis was used. The data has been demanded from Cargill Foods of Winnipeg and Alberta-based Lakeside Packers.
TWO major Canadian meat-packing firms have been threatened with daily CDN $250,000 fines if they miss a May 20 deadline for producing financial details demanded by Canada's House of Commons, investigating the how CDN$1.6 billion of aid during the recent BSE crisis was used. The data has been demanded from Cargill Foods of Winnipeg and Alberta-based Lakeside Packers.
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