Most of those stories came out of the unusual "heist", where in the months prior to July 2012 thieves took the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of syrup from a ware

Most of those stories came out of the unusual "heist", where in the months prior to July 2012 thieves took the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of syrup from a warehouse in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, around 25 km north of Victoriaville, which is about halfway between Montreal and Quebec City, on the South Shore of the St. Lawrence. The other stories mostly concern the conflict between some producers and the Federation of Maple Syrup Producers, which is a legal cartel akin to the Canadian Wheat Board.