Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for coming today.
I'm going to touch on a couple of things. In particular, I want to start off talking about food safety, Minister, and if there's enough time I want to go back to some of your comments on the Wheat Board.
Minister, our government has made some record contributions to the food safety program, including—as you mentioned earlier—adding 733 net front-line inspectors and fulfilling the recommendations of the Weatherill report. In the supplementary estimates (C), on page 23, is a vote appropriation indicating that CFIA will spend almost $7 million to implement a plan to modernize Canada's food safety inspection.
Could you please explain to the committee how this initiative will build on our government's success in making food safer for Canadians?