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SHIFTHEADS: The Chinese-Owned Plant Making Canada's Baby Formula and a Secret Export Operation
Canadian baby formula prices are up 70% in five years. There are still shortages. And the only plant producing baby formula in Canada ships most of what it makes to China and the United States.
That plant cost $380 million to build. Canadian taxpayers confirmed at least $48 million of that. The company that owns it is Chinese. A heavily redacted 200-page document, pried loose through the Freedom of Information Act, confirmed the exports and raised new questions about how supply-managed Canadian milk ended up in a foreign-owned export operation.
With CUSMA talks approaching and the US already…
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