Trophy Import to Canada (Change of rules)

mossyhorns said:
And the million dollar question for those of us that have trophy's on the way, where do I find a list of "certified" taxidermists?
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Canadian Food Inspection Agency has the list and should be updating it daily for the next few weeks. I've got a shipment on the way too and I'm not too worried about it other than it's more money that I didn't plan on spending. I'll worry about finding a certified taxidermist once my shipment is ready to ship.
 
As far as I know there are only three facilities right now....hopefully the list is longer by week's end.
 
A-zone said:
Has anyone noticed that the CFIA is speaking of changes to their own "policy"??? "Policy" is not "law", but the CFIA consistently treats their own policies as having the effect of law, since the CBSA will defer to the CFIA's policies. The CFIA likes to refer to their internally made-up rules as "regulations" also (even when they are not actual regulations passed pursuant to their enabling Act).

I have little doubt that there have been no changes to the actual regulations (passed under the Health of Animals Act). Unfortunately, in my four years of dealing with this outfit, I have found the the CFIA to be a self-serving group of bureaucrats whose main interest revolves around dreaming up ways to increase their own authority.

If they don't get push-back, they have no qualms with crippling a whole industry. Oh, and our sad sack federal Ministers (including our joke of a Minister of Agriculture) are seriously disinterested with questioning their civil servants or understanding their own law.

Push back or prepare to get screwed. Theses SOB's are only concerned with increasing their influence. Misreading the law and creating crippling "policies" out of thin air is their forte. Thanks, BUM for digging up the reg excerpt. There is a ton more where that came from.

I have two three-inch thick files on this cancerous outfit's empire-building efforts. If there was ever a part of the federal Civil Service that needed pruning, reigning-in and strict oversight, the CFIA is it.
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I farm for a living and all I can say is you are exactly right. They are all about increasing their own authority and making busy work so they can hire more people.
 
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