https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bogus-maple-syrup-quebec-9.7149822
Lab tests from the Quebec oversight group that mostly tests bulk make syrup found that cans of syrup sent to local grocery stores were cut with at least 50% cane sugar. The producer has admitted to using some Ontario syrup (which is also illegal, Quebec syrup is supposed to come from Quebec) but is denying the cane sugar and laying the blame on others. (Yes, both.)
I didn’t know maple syrup is sold in cans. Businesses essentially stealing from customers to increase their profits? Oh, I’ve heard of that.
You see that a lot in Quebec (according to my Canadian friend) and also supposedly in Vermont.
I doubt that Quebec syrup tastes any better than Ontario syrup does, but diluting it is a bad thing.
I remember Log Cabin syrup being sold in cans painted to resemble log cabins. Not maple syrup, I know, but a critical syrup data point. You’re welcome.
ETA: Also, I’m old. This was decades ago.
Considering Canada’s flag is nothing but a giant maple leaf, this has got to be the Scandal Of The Century for them.
I’ve seen it; especially, with the small-batch, touristy type, sometimes in (shaped - maple leaf, etc.) bottles, sometimes in cans.
The CEO of Air Canada making an announcement only in English after the crash at LGA cost him his job
This sort of thing is (one of the reasons) why I get maple syrup only from small local producers. (Yeah, that’s easier in upstate NY than in some other places.)
Basically, I’ll buy your syrup if I’ve seen the tree the sap was tapped from. Mass-market merchandise not accepted.
Didn’t Canada used to hang people for tampering with maple syrup?
I bought two gallons of maple syrup from a friend whose family is in the business a few years ago, and haven’t run out, yet. (Although i “re-canned” it into several smaller glass jars, because once it’s opened, it keeps better in the fridge, and i didn’t want it all in the fridge. And i think we are now working on the last jar.)
But yeah, i usually buy new England Maple syrup from a producer i know something about. Nothing against Canadian maple syrup, but the NE syrup is the stuff that i know the provenance of.
The original formula for Log cabin had some (10%) real maple syrup.
Here is a picture/listing for some Quebec maple syrup in cans.
A few minutes googling will come up with more. I think bottles would be better, but when they break- echh, what a mess.
Did you follow the link i posted in the thread? It had pictures just like that. I don’t think it’s controversial that maple syrup is sold in cans in Canada.
I do find it interesting that they sell fairly large cans (that one is 540ml, and i think that’s a pretty standard size) that don’t have any way to seal them. I guess you can leave them open in the fridge, or decant them into a serving container that can be closed. Or maybe Canadians routinely use that much syrup at a meal.
Maple syrup also keeps very well in the freezer, dreaming of being back in the tree on those frosty winter days. 
“I did not know that”.(Johnny Carson voice)
No, that’s a little much for a meal, unless you’ve got a huge family. What my grandmother used to do was to buy a gallon can and decant some of it into a jar. The jar was kept in the kitchen; the can was kept in the basement, until the kitchen jar needed refilling again. She might get one of those cans every two or three years.
Didn’t ants and flies get into the can? Mold?
(I guess i, also, buy a gallon every few years.)
Also, is this scandal a big deal in Canada? It did make my CBC news feed.
No, the can was like a metal gasoline can, with a screw cap. Nothing could get in. Plus, if you knew my grandmother, you’d know that there would be no ants in her basement. She wouldn’t allow them.
Is it this scandal a big deal? I don’t know; I haven’t been watching any national news lately. I guess that it would make the news, but it would be regarded as just another news item, no more or less important than a drug bust or a politician’s remarks.
Hockey news, on the other hand … 
Oh, i remember cans like that. Sort of rectangular. We had at least one when i was a kid, actually! Maybe it came from Canada.
Yes, sort of rectangular, with a handle on the top. Remember, Canadian gallons (160 fl oz) are bigger than American gallons (128 fl oz), and thus heavier. You needed that handle when you lugged the can up and down the basement stairs.
Yup, exactly what we had.
I still find these 540ml round cans with no obvious way to close them a bit odd. But i guess you can open it with a can opener, and put it away in the fridge until the next time you use it
For the sake of amusement, I choose to believe those responsible were the few remaining outlaws, left behind from the Great Maple Syrup Heist, trying to unload the last of their ill-gotten goods and who would certainly have no scruples adulterating their stolen product!
[ apparently 17 people were arrested as a result, but there could be a few who escaped! ]