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Snow is falling thick and wet on Southwestern Ontario on a February morning when Ed LaRoye leaves the hamlet of Woodslee at the wheel of a semi-truck. Hauling 1,400 bushels of corn from John Sauvé’s farm, LaRoye drives 40 kilometres west to Windsor, Canada’s southernmost city, and lines up at the weighing station at the Hiram Walker & Sons distillery, a titanic structure in red brick that sprawls along the shore of the Detroit River.