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Application for mandamus directing Minister, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to consider claim for compensation pursuant to Health of Animals Act, s. 52; declaration Minister, CFIA have authority under s. 52 to order compensation to be paid to owner of “thing”—CFIA ordering destruction of all meat products from slaughter of 95 elk after chronic wasting disease found in one animal as possibility of contact with infected meat product—Application allowed— Health of Animals Act, S.C. 1990, c. 21, s. 52 (as am. by S.C. 1997, c. 6, s. 70).

Alberta Wapiti Products Cooperative Ltd. v. Canada (Minister of Agriculture and Agri‑Food) (T‑512‑04, 2005 FC 1468, O’Keefe J., order dated 28/10/05, 44 pp.)

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