Public Accounts committee  I mentioned some of the things earlier. We now have a growth allowance of 1% that provides milk that would not have been available in the past. This is relative to innovation and new products. We have a system where we now have agreement to redirect skim milk. That redirection of

Public Accounts committee  I'm going to suggest that we're in a fairly rudimentary stage in that regard. As I said, it's only been in the last four or five years that in our annual corporate plan we've indicated much more clearly a linkage of our objectives and strategies back to our original mandate. Fr

Public Accounts committee  That, I believe, is a reference to coming out of our special examination discussion with the Privy Council relative to their recommendations. They made a recommendation that we take the issue to the Office of the Ethics Commissioner. We have done that. We have received a response

Public Accounts committee  From a personal perspective, I don't believe there's a problem. I'm saying that precisely, yes....

Public Accounts committee  I have not said I don't believe there is a problem.

Public Accounts committee  The change that has been made coming out of that recommendation is we changed our bylaws. I made mention earlier that we have put into our bylaws a need for us to make a determination at the outset of every meeting if we believe we have a conflict of interest. That item in the by

Public Accounts committee  It would be a much simpler solution, if you like, if we had a larger board. That would provide us with an opportunity to solve a couple of issues, the skill set being one and the other being a potential issue around conflict.

Public Accounts committee  We do. I'll refer to my earlier comment that the CDC Act indicates we have three board members only.

Public Accounts committee  I think we can eliminate the need for expertise in producer background and processor background, and perhaps there would be an opportunity to bring on individuals with a financial background. That would be another avenue, but I'm not sure that it would be in the best interests of

Public Accounts committee  I think that it is very important to have a level of expertise relative to production and processing.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, and we are limited to three members.

Public Accounts committee  As I said, we identify at the start of every meeting, in terms of a review of every agenda item, if we believe we have a conflict. If we have a conflict, we recuse ourselves. We have put that into our bylaws, so it's not just something that we've done on a casual basis. It's an i

Public Accounts committee  That's a good question. I suggest that if you went back to 15 years ago, every single province was an individual. They certainly sat at the Canadian Milk Supply Management Committee as a group, but they had their own policies. They classified their milk in their own manner and

Public Accounts committee  I don't believe I made any mention of meetings with the Privy Council.

Public Accounts committee  That's correct.