In 2017, CBC published a tongue bath of China owned FeiHe International — A winning formula? China invests in Canadian dairy to help feed its baby boom
Donald Trump called Canada’s supply-managed dairy sector a “disgrace.”
Indeed, Canada’s strict system of production quotas, import restrictions and price and quality controls is a perennial target for free traders.
But guess who likes it? The biggest market Canada is wooing right now: China.
Supply management is a big reason why a Chinese corporation is investing an unprecedented $225 million in eastern Ontario. Feihe International, Inc. wants cows. Goats, too. Lots of them.
That’s because as China’s one-child policy phases out, it’s going to need a lot of baby formula.
Things got off to a shaky start.
On June 24 and July 18, 2019, Kingston Fire and Rescue fire inspector Richard Vasko inspected five houses owned by Realgoal Technology Inc. that were discovered to be housing 88 Chinese workers in total at the time.
Those workers were brought to Kingston from China to “complete a construction project for a production plant,” a report from the Ontario Fire Safety Commission stated.
While the Canada Royal Milk plant being constructed on Kingston’s west end was not mentioned in the report, equipment for the plant has been imported by Heilongjiang Realgoal Technology Co., a Chinese company with headquarters in British Columbia.
Inspectors found all five homes to have various infractions under the Ontario Fire Code, including a lack of emergency exits, unsafe cooking operations, and a lack of working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
The homes — located on Ellesmeer Avenue, Cooke Crescent and Crossfield Avenue — were housing groups of 23, 16, nine, 26 and 14 workers, some in bunkbeds, on all levels of the dwellings, which were built as two- to four-bedroom homes.
At a home on Crossfield Avenue, bed frames were also discovered in the garage.
Some homes were found to be lacking emergency lighting and exit signs. No fire alarm systems were installed in the homes with greater than 14 persons residing in them.
Cooking arrangements in one of the homes was a propane-powered wok fuelled by an unsecured 100-pound propane cylinder in the kitchen. Other cylinders were stored insecurely on the property, the report said.
How it turned out: Workers feared for safety at Ontario baby formula plant
When a Chinese dairy processor invested $332 million to build a baby formula plant in Kingston, Ont., it promised to create hundreds of jobs in Eastern Ontario.
Now, some of the people who took those jobs at Feihe International’s Canadian subsidiary are warning the workplace isn’t safe — and they’re afraid someone is going to get killed.
“They didn’t care about you. They didn’t care about your family,” one worker said. “We were told constantly, ‘This is the way they do things in China.’ […]
When, for example, Ontario regulations required workers to follow a certain process for milk pasteurization and something went wrong, he said, workers were told by supervisors to simply skip that process.
Earlier this month, a dumping incident at the plant’s wastewater treatment facility smelled so foul it alarmed local residents.
The issues went beyond equipment malfunctions and wasted milk. People got hurt.
Jacques Laforge, CEO of Canadian Dairy Commission at that time is now employed by FeiHe . So there’s that.
This country has to rid itself of China
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from the folks who brought you melamine
in pet food and, wait for it… baby formula.
pm care bear’s “most admired dictatorship.”
I swear you could win an election easily just on getting rid of supply management in dairy and poultry. It’s very simple. The pitch is “would you like your grocery bill to be cut by 30-40%?”. You wouldn’t need dairy farmer milk money to win that campaign or any other one.
But the CPC FAKECONs are part of the Canadian Commie Operation. They are the same as the LIBS/NDP/GREENS the voter has no choices.
The Entire Parliament & much of the Canadian Politic ….is SUB SERVIENT to Chi Comm Diktat. Add NenXi, Iveson, Tory to that just to make sure. I suspect many of our Premiers and their Staff also 100% Compromised (LOCKSTEP).
Chicom Assholes now running VYR Airport….
How long before we see these MOFO’s marching down Steven Avenue Mall…celebrated by the CBC.??
Still no reply from Kenney on the Two INTERNMENT KAMPFS located in Ft Mac and Ft Chipewyn…run by by Medika North Inc. Nothing to see there I guess eh..??
“I swear you could win an election easily just on getting rid of supply management in dairy and poultry. It’s very simple. The pitch is “would you like your grocery bill to be cut by 30-40%?”. You wouldn’t need dairy farmer milk money to win that campaign or any other one.”
I’ve been saying the same thing for years now. Problem is, the Quebec dairy cartel is smart: they don’t donate much (if anything) to actual election campaigns…instead, they donate to *leadership* campaigns. Both Scheer and O’Toole took the money…McKay would have, too. Some ‘conservatives’, right? Disgusting.
A Chinese corporation = the Chinese Government. Party insiders all the same, hoarding the lucre, with no real private sector.
All foreign governments should be banned from owning Canadian companies. Put that in your platform.
We should have leverage up the ying yang, given our cooperation in military (that ends now!!), universities and businesses.
The Michaels languish in prison because we won’t give in to every single demand of this fascist Chinese government.
Time to put some starch in our shorts Canada. If these inept serial ball dropping “leaders” don’t comply, dump them.
They expect us to ignore 30 years of failed predictions of climate calamity, informed by dropout Greta and the other “experts.”
So former Dairy Commission CEO Laforge now sitting on the Chicomm company’s board, eh?
One of those $1 per year honorary positions, I suppose…
Canada has gradually accepted Communism. Canadians think they are some great bastion of Freedom and Liberty across the North. “I Am Canadian” But in reality they are serfs and tax slaves on a Tax Farm for Tax Donkeys.
I mean for Gawd’s Sake right in the Trudeau Constitution we have Equalization. Commie Ass Kisser PET’s word for “From Each According To His Means, To Each According To His Needs” Does it get more Commie than that.
“88 Chinese workers”
My question, how is it that “88 Chinese workers” got imported to do construction in Ontario? We don’t have any skilled guys here? Nobody knows how to make a dairy in Ontario?
Or is it more that they couldn’t get a contractor willing to skip all the OSHA regs that make dairies in Ontario fantastically expensive? I can hear the Chinese construction manager guy: “Stainless steel pipe for the milk?! That’s crazy expensive! Just use iron gas pipe, it’ll be fine.”
One of them there secret trade deals that we are not allowed to see and yet it is imposed on us because we are too stupid to understand the deals.
“My question, how is it that “88 Chinese workers” got imported to do construction in Ontario”
Ha ha ha. Stupid capitariss poritishun dogs bereev us when we say make rots of work for you guys.
88 is a double-lucky number.
I’m from Vancouver, I know these things.
They were likely skilled workers, their primary “skill” being rock-bottom cheap.
“Stainless steel pipe for the milk?! That’s crazy expensive! Just use iron gas pipe, it’ll be fine.”
A long as the milk goes to China I am fine with that. Lead pipes too.
My question: “June 24 and July 18, 2019”
We know the bastards are lying about when COVID first hit them…
https://ccbc.com/about/board-of-directors/
This? Nothing much, thought people would like to know those Canadians who made it all happen. Maybe when Canada’s history is written several chapters will be devoted to these assholes who sold us out.
Strangely, Stockwell Day’s pic is missing…but I know he’s on the board of directors and why I didn’t give a shit when he was fired from CBC.
Kingston is the perfect place for this set-up. It’s been Liberal red for several decades, they’d be happy to see so many Chinese workers in their city, no questions asked.
The response should be, “Well, you’re not in China, so you do it our way. Or you can leave.”
I was thinking more along the lines of “Welcome to Canada boys!” followed by some high sticking.
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‘This is the way they do things in China.’ […]
like re-education camps, right?
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I wonder how much of that investment flowed into CSA to get the standards rewritten?
Chinada.
( Doesnt matter how bad the powder milk product is, they just want to whore out the lable, “Made In Canada” to sell to desperate Chinese.
Of course this ruins the brand value of “Made In Canada” for every other legit producer. Germany, Switzerland wouldnt sell out their quality brand value.
Kingston hates this plant. They are always in trouble for something. Health and safety, pollution, etc. I frequently walk by it. Strange factory, barely any windows, people or cars. Built on edge of subdivision of houses.
The Chinese poisoned their own children with melamine-laced products.
What could anyone learn from them? How to get away with a crime?
Some homes were found to be lacking emergency lighting and exit signs. No fire alarm systems were installed in the homes with greater than 14 persons residing in them
During the 2008-9 economic collapse, I worked for PG&E who was busy demolishing homes and garages that were built over their underground gas line easements. PG&E (read: we ratepayers) were paying property owners the cost of demolishing and rebuilding homes illegally built over or within the easements of their high pressure underground gas lines. This coming in the wake of burning multiple homes and people to death in San Bruno, CA
I inspected and planned remodels for multiple homes in the South Bay that were filled with FOB (non English speaking) Communist Chinese residents. Each SINGLE FAMILY home (and garage) had been divided up into multiple units (6-10 units!), each with a new exterior entry door. I was shocked as this violated dozens of zoning and building codes. When speaking with the local cities and building departments … they all KNEW this was happening, but deliberately did nothing … nothing … about it. Why? a) it would be “racist” to expect FOB Chinese to follow building codes, and b) Silicon Valley needed housing units.
I was shocked. Shocked because I have spent a career dealing with obtuse, officious, Bay Area zoning and building department officials who demand every letter of their codes laws be OBEYED! No exceptions! But here there were so many life, health, safety (and zoning) code violations … I couldn’t count … yet the “officials” did nothing.
Oh! and these chopped up units of 1-room each were renting for $1,500 – 2,500/mo. Each single family homeowner was collecting upwards of 10,000/mo. in rent. And now … the State of CA is poised to completely eliminate all SINGLE FAMILY zoning throughout the entire State … hence making these illegal ChiCom units … legal. Yes, in CA … we are ALL becoming like Chinese Communist peasants now …
Apparently, Chinese are still just a dime-a-dozen.
You want to be free of the Canadian dairy lobby? The only way forward, is out. Canada is done, has been since at least Trudeau the First.
Man oh Man!
I can’t wait for those arch Conservatives, Pinky No’Tool and Doublecross Doug to bore new holes in these Liberal skunks on this!
I guess people missed my post about the chinese workers in the city of kingston at least a year ago.. Oh well.
The Chinese have badly mismanaged an Australian dairy conglomerate that they took over in Tasmania. Animal abuse was rampant. Keep an eye on these sneaky bastards.