agriculture committee

UPDATE: Okay, we’ve got the name of one potential witness, at least: ITQ has been told that Suaad Mohamud is in Ottawa, and ready to testify if invited to do so by the committee.

POSTMEETING MICRORECAP: Well, as it turns out, we’re going to get that public inquiry into that listeriosis outbreak after all! Well, sort of: it’s going to be a parliamentary committee (actually, to be precise, a subcommittee, and much, much more about that later) and it will investigate food safety – past, present and future – including, but not limited to, what happened last summer.

So apparently, the Globe and Mail has managed to “obtain” a copy of the now-infamous at-this-point-can-it-really-still-be-called-secret list of proposals for cutbacks at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. That would be the same document, of course, that the Agriculture committee – or the opposition members thereof, at least demanded from the government at the onset of those two days of emergency hearings earlier this week.

UPDATE: Hey, look, it’s yesterday’s government talking points in convenient press release format!