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BY KEITH NUTHALL
CANADIAN meat producers have launched a CDN$7 billion class-action suit against Canada’s federal government for negligently allowing BSE to devastate the country’s cattle industry. The lawsuit claims the government’s monitoring system established to prevent BSE from spreading to Canadian herds failed because it lost track of animals it catalogued as being imported from BSE-ridden Britain.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Canada are working towards a deal where they mutually recognise each other’s fish and live bivalve molluscs health production standards. The negotiations – handled by the European Commission for the EU – follow the agreement by both sides of their first ever food heath mutual recognition deal, for pork products and bovine semen.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE CANADIAN government is to impose 15% additional duties on American oyster imports, because of Washington’s failure to follow a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that it should scrap its Byrd Amendment law on protective tariffs. This grants US companies additional compensation for successfully pushing their federal government into erecting anti-dumping or countervailing duties on imports deemed subsidised or cut-priced.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A FORMER American government packing plant veterinarian says the US government is hiding cases of BSE in the United States. During a speech in Edmonton, Canada, Dr Lester Friedlander stated ex-colleagues with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have told him of cases the department has chosen not to announce.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE
THE SUPREME Court of Canada has confirmed the right of Canadian provinces to introduce stricter anti-smoking retail rules than within the country’s federal Tobacco Act. This came in an explanation of a January judgement rejecting Rothmans Benson & Hedges’ claim of unconstitutionality about a Saskatchewan ban on ‘power wall’ tobacco product displays.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) long-term decision to resume trading beef and live cattle with Canada will not have a significant impact on the cattle supply in the States, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN fish and seafood exports continued to be strong in 2004, totalling CDN$4.5 billion with more than 685,000 tonnes exported worldwide, up 8% compared to 2003. The figures were welcomed by junior fisheries minister Shawn Murphy as “evidence of our country’s commitment to providing quality seafood products to an increasing number of international markets”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A US judge has granted a request by an American cattlemen’s group to temporarily halt plans to reopen the border to Canadian cattle, which had been planned for this week. R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America argued that the opening of borders would present risks of BSE from Canada infiltrating US herds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LONG-RUNNING World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations over creating a geographical indications register for wines and spirits have taken a turn for the worse, a feat barely imaginable considering the talks’ snail-like progress. A special meeting of the WTO Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) council ended in deadlock, with the usual two camps sticking to their guns over whether the register should have legal teeth or not.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WHAT does a paint industry do when its closest neighbour is a huge industrial giant with massive manufacturing capabilities and large product innovation budgets? Unfortunately, when examining the Canadian paint sector, the answer is not one of David and Goliath but rather a more practical and unromantic approach.…