CSI poultry: lobbyists win rare summer committee meeting on illicit chicken imports, dairy

The feds are chewing over a DNA test for fraudulent chicken imports.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale oversees the Canada Border Services Agency, which is struggling to detect chicken imports labelled in such a way as to avoid stiff tariffs designed to protect Canada's supply-managed chicken sector. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

August 10, 2016

It looks like Canada’s dairy and chicken farmers will have to sit tight over the summer as losses from American imports continue to pile up. Lobbyists for those industries, which form the backbone of Canada’s supply-managed a...

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