Exactly. You say:
For the CFIA, as outlined in the 2008 Budget, the savings identified in the review were redirected to Canada's Food and Consumer Safety Action Plan to enhance and protect the health and safety of Canadians. There were no reductions in funding for the CFIA as a result of this exercise. Nor were there job losses. In fact, one of the goals of our strategic review was to ensure that the CFIA was allocating resources to areas of highest risk. Mr. Chairman, in Budget 2008, the Food and Consumer Safety Action Plan was earmarked to receive $113 million over two years. The CFIA will receive some $62 million of this amount, to enhance our system by concentrating on preventing problems in the first place, targeting the products that present the highest risks and providing rapid response to problems when they occur.
I could go on, but I want to tell you why this happened, Dr. Evans, and I want to tell Canadians, because this started way back, I think, in January.
Let me read you another quote:
I'm going to be honest with you. This election, when it comes, I believe it will be the most brutal, it will be the most negative, and it will be the most aggressive election campaign that this country has ever seen.
It also says this:
Canadians should brace themselves for a “brutal, negative, aggressive, Republican/U.S.-style election campaign” that could come as early as this spring, says Malpeque MP Wayne Easter.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'd like to give the rest of my time to my colleague.