So a couple of the cattle in the Canuck�s herds contracted Mad Cow disease and we here in the US stopped buying it, and in fact banned it from importation.
But they still want us to pay for it,
Canadians want U.S. to pay for beef ban
Call it the stampede from up north.
Under an obscure provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canadian cattlemen are asking the U.S. government to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to cover losses they incurred when the border was closed to Canadian beef after mad-cow disease turned up in Alberta.
With the ban set to be lifted early next month, the case spotlights NAFTA’s little-known Chapter 11, which allows companies to claim damages from governments if their laws or actions damage trading partners.
I call it ignorance from up north.
If it had been our fault that their cattle had caught MCD, I could see this. If it had only been a false alarm I could see it. But they�re beef was diseased and we�re still going to have to pay for their problem?
Sounds like international welfare to me.
Lots of the beef herds are in rural areas which are frequented by deer; there is some small speculation that the cattle are getting scrapie from the deer shit in the fields. Good thing Cnada has draconian gun laws and anti-hunting asshats, so those deer herds get huge and the infested deer take over.
Fuckheads. My inlaws are all canadian- most canadians are smarter than this, the real idiots are in government.
Liberal candian pansies why dont they come and take back their wolves instead? we dont need to pay those canuks anymore