MPs to go from fine dining to 'heat-and-serve' meals

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Canada.com Tim Naumetz, The Ottawa CitizenPublished: Monday, July 30, 2007

The old political joke about rubber-chicken dinners may be coming home to roost on Parliament Hill.The House of Commons is planning to substitute fine cuisine and meals prepared for MPs and senators on site with warmed-over pre-cooked meals trucked in from a 21,500-square-foot food plant in Ottawa's east-side industrial sector.The change will end a Hill tradition that goes back to Confederation -- hot meals, including the finest French cuisine, cooked and prepared only a few steps away for politicians every day.