Ontario’s highest court has ordered the province to pay 3.5-million dollars to a company at the heart of a tainted-meat probe nearly two decades ago.
The Court of Appeal ruled last week that the province owes a duty of care to Aylmer Meat Packers after it took over the plant for 19 months after a 2003 investigation into tainted meat.
The main issue in the appeal case focused on Aylmer’s lost opportunity to sell the plant due to the government’s occupation of the abattoir.
The three-judge panel says the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs engaged in a, — quote — “litany of bureaucratic ineptitude.”
