Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 18, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 regional Jim didst close Goose Plant eur official by Aldo Santin a european Union official says the Canadian food inspection Agency has wrongly implicated him in a multimillion Dollar lawsuit with a Teulon poultry Reinhard Riemer said that contrary to a statement of defence filed by the Canadian food inspection Agency he is not responsible for shut Ting Down Northern Goose processors in the fall of i definitely could not desist the Plant because its legally not possible and the Cofia knows very Well that is not pos Riemer said in a recent Telephone interview from his office in Northern Goose is suing the Cofia for claiming officials with the Agency wrongfully removed the Compa denies claims made by Canadian food Agency by in 1997 from a list of processors authorized to ship poultry products to opening arguments in the Case will be made in november and the trial will resume in february in an amended statement of defence filed this month in Manitoba court of Queens the Cofia repeats its claim that Riemer relisted the Teulon Plant in october 1997 after he had inspected it and that he would not accept any assurances that the Plant could meet european documents obtained by Northern Goose through Access to information legislation and filed in court As Well As other statements contained in the Agency statement of defence contradict and undermine the Fias own defence that it was Riemers Deci Sion to desist Northern a veterinarian counsellor then working out of the us offices in Wash inspected Northern Goose on and singled out some deficiencies in its the Cofia states that it was at the conclusion of that inspection that Riemer decided to remove the Plant from the us import but Northern Goose has found letters Between the Cofia and Riemer which contradict that position i a 1997 letter from Riemer to the Cofia lists the plants he had inspected and states he is looking Forward to receiving assurances from including Northern that they will com ply with eur i a 1997 letter from Cofia to Riemer advising them to remove sever Al plants from the us Export eligibility including Northern even though the Cofia states that it was Riemer who relisted the Teulon Plant in late october the Agency statement of defence states that it wrote to Riemer in Early december advising him to remove Northern Goose from the list of Export eligible plants because it was no longer interested in shipping product to Riemer said staff from his office and the Cofia have been conducting Plant inspections for adding the Cofia knows he Doest have the authority to desist a Canadian 0 a picture says a thousand works i 11 it inc in 697 7063 2001 Gumc Sierra wrangler 2wd limited edition special colours available vortex 4300 Kab 200hp engine automatic transmission with overdrive and Mode 4wheel disc 4wheel int Kock Irving system or Cendt Lelm with Interior Lar full Triton system full including engine hour meter t Driver 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c3mc Bill Redekop give sows More room to move researcher free the sows now May be the next consumer rallying if Canada follows Europe More than a million female hogs in Canada Are currently confined in crates so Small their Muscles atrophy and their Bones according to a study conducted at England Cam Bridge the sows stay in the crates for their entire Breed ing lives about three years before they Are Only the sows Are crated male hogs Are free to roam in the practice has spread with the growth of new industrialized hog barns in Western its one of the top issues in the Indus said Harold Gonyou of Saska Toons Prairie Swine Centre while there has been Little outcry in the United kingdom has already banned crating of sows and does not accept pork imports from nations that allow in the rest of the european hog Farmers have been Given 10 years to phase out the Mcdonalds restaurants says it is drafting a policy to Stop buying pork from barns where sows Are not allowed to move about with other Ani a similar movement in Canada would have huge consequences in where about sows Are currently confined to often in hog barns holding to i think the future is group maintains a leading researcher into ending the he is currently studying such a system developed in the Netherlands in which the sows Are allowed to live outside crates 75 per cent of the time and Are Only crated at the end of gestation and for the birthing our animals Are very Calm and very easy to work they walk and there not stiff because there used to walking he said of his Gonyou could not speculate on what it costs to convert crate operation to free except to say that it would be a dramatic but he said Farmers might be advised to do it sooner rather than considering the Way con Sumer trends Are the biggest Issue is the welfare of the and does the consumer want sows housed in he the largest funder of Vonyous research is Alberta Mani Toba pork is also a Canadian hog Farmers marketed about 25 million hogs last winners 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