Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Mr. Bellavance, as you correctly pointed out, the coalition represents a large number of organizations--30--representing every segment of the supply chain. We have not, ourselves, as the coalition, done a post-mortem on the listeria situation of last year. I think, though, you wo

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I guess I would answer that question in a couple of ways. We haven't gone down to that level of detail because we've suggested very strongly that we need to have a very good discussion as to what that model would look like and what the commitments would be. We're trying to get go

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  When you refer to the outbreak, do you mean last year's listeriosis outbreak?

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Yes, I'm just trying to clarify, is that what you meant?

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I don't know of any exercises yet that have come out of the incident last summer, but the lessons learned documents, as you know, have just been tabled very recently. As an example, a workshop is coming up near the end of this month that is very much going to involve industry and

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  To my knowledge, we have not received an invitation to do so. Other individual food businesses or associations might have been involved in some of those discussions.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  The coalition would be very interested in participating in any elaboration of best practice for communication, whether it's a food safety incident or another one such as a pandemic, etc.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I think we have to understand that the agrifood industry is very large and very complex. Having a national session that would be a practice session brings only certain players to the table at any one time. I think it certainly has to go that way. You need to get the people who ar

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  That's not a question I am competent to answer, I'm afraid.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I think industry would like all the voices reported. Whether it came in one document or in several is immaterial in that sense. There was clearly discussion and consultation back and forth before those reports were finally issued.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  If we went back over time, you'd discover that the coalition has been making a number of suggestions since its formation as to the need to improve certain parts of the infrastructure. And it's not just hard capital infrastructure, but the other parts of infrastructure that are pa

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Mr. Chair, the founding rationale of the Canadian Supply Chain Food Safety Coalition is a firm belief among members of the supply chain that it is a supply chain responsibility, from input suppliers, whether they're producing agrifood chemicals or other chemicals used in food pro

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Mr. Shipley, I think we do. One of the premises of trade policy in the 21st century, I believe, is that before you can impose requirements on the products coming into your country, you have to have the same requirements at home. Certainly that has driven federal interest in areas

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  You've asked a number of questions there. I'll try briefly to deal with them, Mr. Chair. First of all, I'd encourage the committee to think about HACCP or HACCP-based programs as having been constructed using a very powerful tool of analysis. HACCP is a toolkit that you use to

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  First of all, I'll deal with the issue of the consensus model. I've been working in food safety with various associations and governments for almost 20 years now. I have seen remarkable consensus achieved within industry and within groups that represent large and small players.