Deja vu all over again?

Impolitical picked up on this story which has Health Minister Tony Clement as an unwelcome guest at a Natural Resources Committee meeting.

The commmittee will be hearing from Linda Keen the former head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commision who was fired the night before she was to appear before a special hearing of the committee two weeks ago.
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But now Health Minister Tony Clement is scheduled to testify right after Linda Keen.

Opposition party members have written letters objecting to his appearance.

They say it's a ploy by the government to get in the last word in the ongoing dispute with Linda Keen over who was to blame for the isotope shortage crisis.

But if Clement does appear, I suspect there will be lots to talk about.

Opposition parties are accusing the Harper government of manufacturing last month's medical isotope crisis.

The parties levelled the accusation Monday based on a report that the government did not speak to alternative European suppliers of isotopes until Dec. 10 - 19 days after the research reactor at Chalk River, Ont., was shut down.

Even then, according to a Montreal newspaper, the government advised officials at three European reactors that they didn't need to increase their isotope production because the shutdown at Chalk River would be remedied shortly.

So Lunn and Harper continue to accuse Keen of endangering lives, but the government's message to other isotope manufacturers was "Don't worry, we've got it under control."

Predictably:

Health Minister Tony Clement insists the report is "completely untrue."

Right. The last time the government insisted that something reported in a Montreal newspaper was completely untrue, it involved allegations of abuse of Afghan prisoners. We know how that turned out.