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“Here’s one result that’s a certainty: taxpayers will remember that the Ford and Trudeau governments are respecting their tax dollars by putting them where they are most obviously unneeded: into the pockets of a corporation for the purpose of building a chicken processing plant.”

Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) federal director Aaron Wudrick responses to a joint federal-provincial announcement of a $62.5 million taxpayer subsidy to Maple Leaf Foods for a new plant in London