Ottawa's decision to ban P.E.I. seed and table potato exports was not based on science but rather was based on pressure from the U.S., lawyers for the P.E.I. Potato Board argued March 23 in Federal Court.
Lawyers Duncan Boswell, left, and John Wilson, leave the provincial courthouse in Charlottetown on March 23. On that date, Boswell and Wilson represented the P.E.I. Potato Board in Federal Court regarding the federal government's 2021 decision to ban seed potato exports to the U.S. and within Canada as a result of the presence of potato wart. - Terrence McEachern/SaltWire NetworkCHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Ottawa's decision to ban P.E.I.
On Oct. 1 and Oct. 14, 2021, the CFIA confirmed the presence of potato wart on two farms in P.E.I. As a result, on Nov. 2, 2021, the CFIA suspended seed potato exports from P.E.I. to the U.S. This was followed by a ministerial order by Marie-Claude Bibeau, minister of agriculture and agri-food, on Nov. 21, 2021, thatDuncan Boswell, a lawyer representing the P.E.I. Potato Board, said the federal government's decisions in November 2021 to ban P.E.I.
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