Hearing scheduled in Federal Court on Thursday regarding P.E.I. potato seeds
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A judicial evaluate is scheduled to be heard this week in Federal Court docket in Charlottetown relating to an utility by the P.E.I. Potato Board difficult the federal authorities’s choices involving the restriction of potato seed exports because of the presence of warts.
In accordance with a information launch issued March 21, the potato board filed the appliance on June 24, 2022, in opposition to the Canadian Meals Inspection Company and the minister of agriculture and agri-food.
The applying is asking the courtroom to put aside ongoing authorities choices since Nov. 21, 2021, that prohibited seed potato motion inside Canadian and U.S. markets as a result of potato wart. Of be aware, the board says a difficulty is with a ministerial order that declared the “complete province infested with potato wart.”
“The applying alleges that these choices have restricted the motion of all P.E.I. seed potatoes, together with these from fields with no relation to potato wart detections, with out ample scientific or rational justification,” the board says, including that the federal government choices have brought on “catastrophic injury to P.E.I.’s seed business.”
The Federal Court docket listening to is scheduled for March 23, within the provincial courtroom constructing in Charlottetown.
Terrence McEachern is a reporter with SaltWire Community in Prince Edward Island. He will be reached at [email protected]
