A re-elected Conservative Government will proceed with an impartial third-party
investigation of the recent listeriosis outbreak.
The Harper government now says it hopes to name in the next few weeks a head investigator- likely a health-care expert to assess the deaths of 20 people. That timeline would leave less than two months to deliver a food-safety report and recommendations originally due March 15.
''It's a joke,'' said Rick Holley, a professor of food safety and food microbiology at the University of Manitoba. ''The government should use the folks that they're already paying to have the expertise and knowledge and understanding of what's wrong with the food system in this country, put them in a room together and get a solution,'' he said. ''It can't be a political appointee.''
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