Oldtimer said:
Tam said:
Does freedom of speech mean you can repeatedly lie about something and get away with it Oldtimer? In most countries if you lie to the point of damaging the reputation of someone or something that is a case of SLANDER punishable by law.
Tam- Are you going to sue this Canadian group and the 100,000 they represent :???: Much of what they contend in the lawsuit is exactly what R-CALF and many US producers have been saying for months...What you have been saying is a lie, is now what these Canadian attorneys from several Provinces are now saying has happened... Are they libel/slandering you?
Just like Judge Cebull and the US Senators said- we need to set back and look at ALL the evidence before we make any hasty decisions on relaxing rules on imports.....If Canadians are bringing forth all this info now at this time, how much more do we not know? Why did NCBA's " investigative team of experts" miss all this in their 3 day barstool investigation of the entire Canadian feedban?
Where in this law suit does it say that in 2005 Canada has a chronic uncomplied to feed ban? Everything in this lawsuit pertains to pre feed ban happenings. Or didn't you notice the dates stated 1990, 1993 the feed ban came in in 1997 just like in the US.
Where does it say that in 2005 the US will have tested 150,000 more head
annually than Canada for BSE? When in fact the US has only tested 233,615 head in 12 years and percentage wise are behind in their testing by over 45,000.
Where does it say in 2005 Canada processes downers but the US doesn't? When we have the same rules about downers and Canada also has laws against even hauling a downer. If we have the same rules and you look at the records of compliance to other rules, who do you think is more likely to be complying to the rules.
All this lawsuit says is Ridley Corp. knew, or
ought to have known, that its feed
could be contaminated by BSE. What Ridley did was perfectly legal in Canada and the US at the time. Why should Ridley know something that the rest of World didn't know? That being that BSE was in still in Canada. As far as the CFIA that part of the story just doesn't fit with the story that we have been told. and a LAWYER surely wouldn't stretch the numbers to make his 7 billion dollar case now would he. This lawsuit wants to blame the governemt and a international feed company to the tune of 7 billion dollars for something that a few producers caused. First by importing a few cattle from the UK which was legal at the time and then disposing of them. But if these cattle weren't being monitored these producers did nothing wrong but if they were being monitored then the producers should have notified the CFIA before disposing of them. The lawyer was able to find out about the 80 head so If they were being monitored the CFIA should have the names of the last known owners. Why aren't the producers being held accountable for their part of the BSE crisis? It would be interesting to know if any of those producers are in on this law suit.
Does any body really know anything about who is behind this lawsuit other than Mr Pallett the lawyer. The CCA doesn't seem to know much about it and I asked the SSGA president and he is in the dark of who in Sask is involved. This is a pretty big group of farmers for nobody to know who they are.