ONTARIO: Liberals seek emergency meeting on Conservative plan to abandon food safety inspections - (Liberal press release)
August 14, 2008 – 11:56 pmOTTAWA - Liberals have demanded an emergency meeting of the agriculture committee to scrutinize a potentially dangerous, secret Conservative plan to gut food safety inspections, Liberal Agriculture Critic Wayne Easter, Public Health Critic Dr. Carolyn Bennett and Health Critic Robert Thibault said today.
The government has refused to release the plan or subject it to committee scrutiny, and media reports indicate that it will be implemented this fall, said Mr. Easter. We therefore have no choice but to force the committee to meet as quickly as possible. They have had eight months to level with Canadians since the plan was reportedly approved, yet they have refused. What are they hiding?
The Liberals today submitted a letter to the committee clerk, which gives the chair five days to call the emergency meeting.
For the complete news item, please visit http://www.liberal.ca/story_14258_e.aspx
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