Parliamentary Restaurant to serve seal, Harb calls it ’embarrassing’

Fisheries Minister Gail Shea and a number of MPs and Senators plan to attend Grit Sen. Céline Hervieux-Payette's seal feast on the Hill.

Despite the European Union's ban on Canadian seal products, the Parliamentary Restaurant will be serving seal meat for the first time on Wednesday in support of the internationally controversial seal hunt, but Liberal Senator Mac Harb says this symbolic gesture does nothing for struggling sealers...

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