Mr. Roberts spoke about it briefly. In the United States, the private sector more precisely handles food inspection and food safety. Playing with people's health in this manner is not an example we should follow. When there were some recalls recently—I mentioned this yesterday in committee—the vast majority concerned foods from the United States. I don't want to accuse the Americans of anything, but there is likely an inspection problem.
The Americans are not currently as well protected as we are. I don't think that this example, where ground beef, spinach, tomatoes and cantaloupes from the United States were very recently the subject of recalls, is the right one to follow. The idea isn't to scare Canadians and Quebeckers by telling them that implementing a plan could lead us to adopt this procedure. We're not scaring them: we're warning them that the government appears to be taking this path, that it's not a good idea and that we want them to know.