Mr. Speaker, an amicus brief status these days is like issuing a news release and is just as effective.
It has been 701 days since the U.S. border was closed to Canadian livestock. Since then the Liberal government has failed to apply for intervenor status, not amicus status, in the courtroom where a Montana judge has put the Canadian food safety system on trial.
Why is the government leaving it to the U.S. protectionist lobbies to explain our food safety system to a U.S. judge?