Mr. Chair, CFIA does indeed carry out all its checks and this is done with a random sampling plan. We did note in the chapter, however, that 16% of these did not meet their time standards. We followed up with each of these files and found there were particular reasons for that. We also note in that paragraph, I believe it's paragraph 35, that the CFIA itself did not know whether it was doing that. It was only through the course of our audit work that we were able to demonstrate to the agency that it was being done.
On November 27th, 2013. See this statement in context.