The Conservative government says it will resurrect the special Commons committee on Afghanistan when Parliament returns next week.
Opposition parties have accused the government of proroguing in December to kill the committee, which was probing the controversial issue of Canadian complicity in prisoner abuse in Afghanistan.
Government whip Gordon O'Connor wrote to the official Opposition saying, "all committees, including the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan, will be reconstituted quickly, upon the return of the House."
When the committee shut down, the hot button topic was whether the Tories would release uncensored documents into prisoner abuse.
The House of Commons had voted to force the government to release the papers, but the Tories suggested they would ignore the demand.
Conservative MPs also boycotted the committee for a short time in December.
O'Connor's letter wasn't strictly business, however, as he took a few shots at the Liberals, who promised to keep working during prorogation.
"I noticed that your party held a series of meetings over a three-week period, talking to yourselves. Curiously, your meetings have not continued through the Olympics," O'Connor wrote.
"I assume your meetings were held to make it appear to Canadians that you were at 鈥榳ork' while our Government was not. The reality is quite the contrary."
Afghan prisoner abuse has been a hot-button issue on Parliament Hill since diplomat Richard Colvin told a committee in November that detainees captured by Canadians in 2006 and 2007 were likely to have been tortured when handed over to the Afghans authorities.
The Harper government has repeatedly attacked Colvin's credibility, leading to 95 former ambassadors condemning the government's treatment of the diplomat.
