Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to everyone for coming today.
I would just like to point out that Mr. Charlebois is on the minister's own expert panel, and has been for some time. You can derive from that whatever you wish with respect to Mr. Charlebois' opinion about the issue of the timeliness of the production of reports from the industry.
That said, section 13 most clearly gives authority now to demand production. There are clear penalties in the act, including shutting down the plant, which happened in this case. You can say to someone that you have all the authority you need, which it says now, or you can say to someone that you have all the authority you need including this, this, and this, which, by the way, was already indicated to the CFIA inspectors in a bulletin from the minister's own department in February of this year.
That said, Minister, in her investigation into the listeriosis outbreak, a concern was expressed by Ms. Weatherill. She said that a lack of detailed information and different voices left the independent investigator unable to determine the existing level of resources and the resources necessary to operate the compliance verification system. She made a recommendation—recommendation 7, to be specific—for a resources audit by an independent third party expert.
Can you explain why that audit has yet to be done?