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UPDATE: ListeriosisReportWatc … : Oh, wait, never mind. There it is.

by kadyomalley on Monday, July 20, 2009 2:59pm - 12 Comments

Huh. We didn’t even have time to whip ourselves into a frenzy over the outrageous lack of transparency. Way to ruin a perfectly good 24 hour news cycle, minister:

MESSAGE FROM THE INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR

July 20, 2009 (Ottawa) – Today, I submitted my final report on the August 2008 Listeriosis outbreak to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food. This report concludes a six-month-long investigation into a tragedy that cost 22 Canadians their lives.

[...]

At the request of the Minister, I will publicly release my report tomorrow at a news conference. The report will also be posted to the Listeriosis Investigation website for public viewing at: http://www.listeriosis-listeriose.investigation-enquete.gc.ca/

Sheila Weatherill

Independent Investigator

UPDATE: PMO reassures us, via Canadian Press, that there will be no “tinkering” with the report overnight:

The Harper government says it won’t tinker with an independent investigator’s report into last year’s deadly listeriosis crisis before releasing it to the public.

Sheila Weatherill has handed in her report to Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. She was expected to hold a news conference Tuesday in Ottawa to discuss her findings.

A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the report won’t be edited or altered in any way before it is released on Tuesday.

“We’re looking at the report right now and she’ll present it to the public tomorrow,” Kory Teneycke said Monday.

WELL, SOMETHING’S CERTAINLY UP-DATE: Um, y’all? Maybe I spoke too soon. Check out what just came down the wire — a corrected press release, which is missing rather a lot of the contents of this one.

Tags: Gerry Ritz, listeriosisreportwatch interrupted, nothing to see here folks

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Dakota

Where are the angry Lib-Left posters?
Catherine

Not whipped into a frenzy, but the report might have been reported today.
It is already long over-due.
http://intensedebate.com/people/MoneyCityManiac Johnny

On a completely unrelated note: I'm an ardent supporter of bilingualism in this country, but our government's tendency to mash English and French together into web site URLs is ugly and makes them inconvenient for people of either language.

http://www.listeriosis-listeriose.investigation-e… has got to be the worst offender I've seen yet.

I suppose you can argue that people tend to Google for URLs rather than type them in nowadays, but wouldn't it be much more sane to simply register two URLs, one in each official language?

http://intensedebate.com/people/KadyITQ KadyITQ

It really is hideous, isn't it?

http://bigcitylib.blogspot.com bigcitylib

We're waiting for the report, nursing our rage.

Hey Kadey, what happened to the final geek out on the blog/MSM meme tracker thingy? I've been waiting for that.

http://intensedebate.com/people/KadyITQ KadyITQ

I know, I'm so sorry — I got completely distracted by ongoing events, and still have to finish writing it up, but it's coming, I promise.

http://intensedebate.com/people/Stewart_Smith Stewart_Smith

We could bring back some tasteless comments by Minister in question, but Sheriff Wells has laid down the law on "out of date commentary".
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/07/20/about-those-no…
Of course, inane jazz postings continue.

Agog

Professor Hargraves in the library with A/ a gun B/ a knife C/ "anticipatory blogging"

Wayne

I agree Kady : how dare the conservative gov't employ openness and accountability – this is unacceptable I may have to review my tendency to vote for them!
http://intensedebate.com/people/JPro JPro

That's not what Kady said, so the only person you're agreeing with is yourself.
http://intensedebate.com/people/TJCook TJCook

"The Harper government says it won’t tinker with an independent investigator’s report into last year’s deadly listeriosis crisis before releasing it to the public."

How sad that we need to be assured of this.