Where is the CFIA when you see this word “food”? When you go into the grocery store, there is a lot of food that you really have no control or little control over--processed food, which is apparently regulated by the provinces. I'm thinking of bread, for example. I want to ask a question on bread, because of our grain farmers. We go to the grocery store, and I don't think we have much control over bread.
I'm always concerned with the life expectancy of bread. They are apparently putting ingredients into bread that will allow it to sit around for maybe two weeks before it becomes crusted. Who controls that formaldehyde--I think it is--or formaldehyde product that is injected into bread?
We see the same with apples. They take apples now, and they can do something to the apple to make it fairly fresh for a long period of time. You see it in other products to increase the life expectancy, the edible life.
It's amazing to think that you can put a loaf of bread on a shelf on a supermarket here in Ottawa and it can sit there for two weeks and still have a date that hasn't expired. As a consumer, who do I worry about? Maybe Mr. Evans is going to answer that question, but who controls it? Is it a good product?
I opened a piece of bread today that I got at a local restaurant. I opened it, and it was mouldy. I took it back and said, “Are you selling mouldy bread?” The answer was, “Oh my, we just got that from the distributor”. But it is a product that we have to be concerned about.
André is getting worried.