Cheese High Risk? Only In Ontario

Denis Nadeau is a big fromage in Kapuskasing.

Now he wants to share his delicious artisan cheeses with the rest of the world.

Sadly, for cheese lovers, his exquisite Cantal and divine Tomme de Savoie are tied up in red tape. He either has to break the law to get them to market or spend thousands of dollars on unnecessary refrigeration.

“When we decided in Ontario a long time ago that cheese is milk, it made it impossible to build a cheese factory,” Nadeau told me in an interview Thursday.

His cat and mouse game with bureaucrats has him asking why he’s required to wrap his cheese in plastic wrap and keep it refrigerated, when elsewhere in the world there are no such requirements.

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