Conservative MP Aaron Gunn’s bid to force release of a key B.C. salmon farming report was shut down by what he calls a “childish and embarrassing” filibuster.
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By Fabian Dawson SeaWestNews Why is the federal government hiding the long-promised report on the future of salmon farming in British Columbia? That question is now hanging over Ottawa after Conservative MP Aaron Gunn was blocked from getting a production order for the report, which Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson said eight months ago would be released “very shortly.” “Workers in the salmon farming industry deserve answers,” said Gunn, the MP for North Island-Powell River, a riding that would bear much of the fallout if the Carney government follows through on the Trudeau-era plan to ban ocean salmon farming in British Columbia by 2029. “They were promised clarity by this past fall, and here we are in April with nothing from the minister, nothing from the department, and no idea whether the government is preparing to put over 4,000 Canadians out of work,” Gunn told SeaWestNews. Gunn raised the issue at yesterday’s meeting of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, ...