Finance committee  I just don't want to let the assertion go about the gap between private sector and public service salaries. The CFIB study has I think been generally discredited because it lumps together all occupations. It doesn't control for educational attainment; it simply compares groups of

Agriculture committee  They do involve cuts.

Agriculture committee  On that, I simply rely on the published accounts. I didn't give it close enough scrutiny and my memory isn't good enough to rely on the document.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  As a non-physical scientist, but someone who works with physical scientists in the federal government and who reads about the public policy circumstances and the consequences of science and technology decisions, it is my assessment that what is set out in that proposal for strate

Agriculture committee  Based on my discussions with the professional regulators and the scientists working at CFIA, and based on my readings, I think that was a legitimate concern I had.

Agriculture committee  Obviously.

Agriculture committee  I met him recently.

Agriculture committee  Thank you. Very quickly, the issue of the specific details of this case are being discussed, debated, and deliberated in the appropriate context: the grievance and arbitration process. What brings us here is the larger public interest issue surrounding the substance, not the sp

Agriculture committee  May I respond?

Agriculture committee  A lot of euphemisms have been used, such as modernization. Yesterday I heard the expenditure review process referred to as investing in food safety--reallocations instead of cuts. The reason the strategic expenditure review process is such a concern is because of the way in which

Agriculture committee  I'll speak to that very quickly. I think they're extremely serious. The panel heard 56 or 58 proposals to transfer non-regulatory laboratories from the federal government to universities or the private sector, and they said every one of them is worth acting on, or nearly comple

Agriculture committee  If I may, I'll respond very quickly to this one. It's interesting that the most recently reported comparative analysis of national food safety systems around the world rated Canada as superior. But the author of that study recently said, in an op-ed article responding to the out

Agriculture committee  Thank you to the committee for inviting us here today. I commend the decision of the committee to inquire into the goings-on at CFIA and the state of the food safety system in Canada. I encourage you to seek out the document in question, and I encourage you in your deliberation

Industry committee  There are a couple of things about the coherence or coordination between the economic strategy and the science and technology strategy. We know how important manufacturing is to business sector R and D. It performs well over half of business sector R and D. When the economic stra