Yes. I'm not saying that as a criticism of you folks. That's the reality. If the Minister of Finance, taking his direction from the PMO, decides there's going to be a 10% cut in CFIA, you folks, in your job, have no choice but to exercise it. That's the dilemma we're in here without having access to the secret document.
We passed a motion earlier that we hoped to obtain that secret document. The dilemma for us and the opposition is that we don't have the document—although we've passed a motion that we want it—and you can't answer the questions because of the very point that the chair outlined. So we're in a bit of a box here. It makes my argument that we really need that secret document and we really need to know where the government is going, if they could can their secrecy and discuss things with the public. It's well known, and everybody knows in this country, the Prime Minister's resolve to basically get rid of the federal government except in a couple of areas.
I have just one other question, and I don't know whether you can answer this one either, but there seems to be a fair bit of discussion on the proposal to reduce or limit the approval system for labelling. We at this committee have pushed for truth in labelling, that “Product of Canada” be what it actually says, that imported product clearly define where the product comes from, etc. But it's alleged, around this secret document--and one scientist was fired, as you know--that there's to be an elimination of the approval system that the CFIA undertakes for labelling.
Can you say anything on that?