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Seal meat on the menu: Would you eat it? - Point of View

Seal meat on the menu: Would you eat it?

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Governor General Michalle Jean, middle left, and her husband,Jean-Daniel Lafond, ate seal meat during a community feast in RankinInlet, Nunavut, in May.  (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

Seal meat is about to join beef tenderloin and baked salmon on thehaute-cuisine menu for MPs and senators in the parliamentary restaurant.

MPs say Parliament is taking a cue from Gov. Gen. Michalle Jean, whotriggered a global controversy last May by eating seal meat while on avisit to Nunavut in a show of support for Inuit culture.

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