Tainted meat a new border smuggling worry

February 24, 2011

The following is excerpted from the 23 February 2011 edition of "globeandmail.com".

It sounds like such a wacky little story, or even a joke: The Cornwall Regional Task Force, a multi-jurisdictional force, and the Canada Border Services Agency, have made a big bust of…smuggled chicken.

Let the why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-border funnies begin.

But what the border cops found on Feb. 18 – a total of 1,804 pounds or about 820 kilos of spoiled poultry recovered from an un-refrigerated truck stopped at the port of entry and later in a Cornwall private residence – is really just the logical extension of what’s been happening in and around the notorious Akwesasne Mohawk Territory for years.

Cigarettes, raw cut tobacco, weapons, cars, trucks and SUVs, snowmobiles, currency, drugs: You name it, it’s probably been smuggled into Canada at the crossing at the Seaway International Bridge, or as it was delicately renamed 11 years ago in recognition of the Akwesasne Mohawks, the Three Nations Bridge. ...

This article is available in its entirety on The Globe and Mail website at:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/christie-blatchford/tainted-meat-a-new-border-smuggling-worry/article1918303/


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