Editor’s note: This piece was originally published by the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, a collaborative investigative newsroom supported by Postmedia that recently published a series of stories on Canada’s oversight system for dog testing.

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