Bringing a prison abattoir back from the dead

Public Safety Canada has reopened the door to a controversial operation that offers up federal inmate labour at an Ontario slaughterhouse, according to tender documents.

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree oversees CSC, which is seeking a business to independently operate a currently defunct abattoir at Kingston, Ont.’s Joyceville Institution.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CALVIN NEUFELD

July 22, 2026

Four years after the Correctional Service of Canada closed its last abattoir, a tender has been issued seeking a private company to lease the slaughterhouse at Joyceville In...

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