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OTTAWA/QUEBEC EDITION ■ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2019 ■ GLOBEANDMAIL.COM

China has reopened its market to
imports of Canadian pork and
beef after a four-month ban in a
move that signals a partial thaw
in trade relations and will signif-
icantly help Canadian farmers.
China had banned shipments

in late June, with Chinese author-

ities at the time citing falsified

export certificates as the reason

for this measure. But Prime Min-

ister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday

the Chinese market has reo-

pened, a development that will

enable exports worth hundreds

of millions of dollars to resume

shipping.

Canadian farmers and the

agrifood industry saw their sales

to China severely damaged in the

wake of Canada’s arrest of Hua-

wei Technologies chief financial

officer Meng Wanzhou at the

Vancouver International Airport

in December, 2018. This included

not only an end to shipments of

pork and beef, but also a drastic

reduction in the amount of cano-

la seed and soybean purchased

by Chinese buyers.

China, the world’s largest pork

producer, has had its pig herd re-

duced by millions amid an out-

break of African swine fever, a fa-

tal disease that is widespread in

Asia and parts of Eastern Europe.

A senior Canadian govern-

ment official who was familiar

with the matter said the Chinese

needed access to Canada’s pork

supply in particular after the out-

break, and they did not want to

be too reliant on U.S. pork in the

meantime. Beijing was also eager

to reduce the number of battles it

was fighting on various fronts

with trading partners, the source

said. The source is being kept

confidential because they were

not authorized to speak publicly.

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STEVENCHASEOTTAWA
ERICATKINSTORONTO

The U.S. ambassador to the Eu-

ropean Union says he told a top

Ukrainian official the Trump ad-

ministration would keep with-

holding US$400-million in prom-

ised military aid until Kyiv agreed

to investigate a company tied to

the son of former U.S. vice-presi-

dent Joe Biden.

The revelation from Gordon

Sondland provides further evi-

dence that U.S. President Donald

Trump tried to use the money to

force Ukraine to tarnish a top po-

tential challenger in next year’s

election. And it runs counter to

Mr. Trump’s repeated assertion

there was “no quid pro quo” when

he demanded the investigation

from Ukrainian President Volody-

myr Zelensky in a July telephone

call.

The Democrat-led House of

Representatives’ impeachment

inquiry is becoming more public,

releasing transcripts of interviews

with key witnesses and planning

open hearings this month. The in-

quiry is investigating whether Mr.

Trump abused his power by solic-

iting foreign interference in the

2020 vote.

Mr. Sondland, an Oregon hote-

lier appointed to the EU post after

donating $1-million to Mr.

Trump’s inaugural committee,

had previously claimed he could

not remember key conversations

about the bartering of military aid

for the investigations. In one text

exchange with other diplomats,

he repeated Mr. Trump’s assertion

that there was no “quid pro quo.”

But Mr. Sondland reversed

himself in a letter this week to the

congressional committee run-

ning the impeachment inquiry,

which he submitted as a “supple-

ment” to his deposition last

month. The letter was released

Tuesday along with hundreds of

pages of transcripts of testimony

to the inquiry.

In his letter, Mr. Sondland

wrote that Mr. Zelensky asked U.S.

Vice-President Mike Pence at a

meeting in Warsaw on Sept. 1

about the sudden and unex-

plained freeze the administration

had put on military aid.

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revisesstory,

acknowledges

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withUkraine

ADRIANMORROW

U.S.CORRESPONDENT

WASHINGTON

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s parents across the country begin
hauling their children to influen-
za vaccination clinics, many are
being caught off-guard by the dis-
covery that a painless alternative to the
traditional shot won’t be available in Cana-
da this year.
The company that makes FluMist, a na-
sal-spray version of the vaccine, warned
Health Canada in April that it would not be
shipping any doses to this country for the
2019-20 flu season after production chal-
lenges left the drug maker with a limited
global supply.
It is the first time since public funding of
FluMist began in the 2012-13 season that
needle-phobic Canadian children won’t
have access to an inhaled flu vaccine, and

that lack of availability comes as pharma-

cists across the country are also reporting

delays in receiving their full orders of the

injectable vaccine.

Natalie Cousineau, an emergency-room

doctor and mother of two from Barrie,

Ont., said this year was a departure for her

children, Logan, 11 and Maëlle, 9, who had

inhaled their annual influenza vaccines for

as long as they both could remember.

Maëlle’s worries grew as she watched

first her father and then her brother re-

ceive quick jabs in their upper arms at a

community pharmacy.

“She started with the nervous giggle,

which led to the full-out hyperventilating,”

Dr. Cousineau said. “I think she probably

got a little more anxious than we expected,

but she sucked it up and she didn’t melt

down. She tolerated it.”

VACCINE,A

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