Mr. Chair, before we start with witnesses, I don't know if everybody is aware, but the minister issued a press statement last night attacking the opposition parties for basically doing their job. I don't know whether we want to challenge the minister to the Speaker or not, but it was a fairly brutal press release, going after me personally. I don't mind that; it doesn't bother me much. If you fire a stone into a pig pen and hear a squeal, you know you've hit something.
But the fact of the matter is that we, as an agriculture committee, are doing our job. It was reported, and a scientist was fired for it, that there is a secret document on major cutbacks to CFIA that we believe could endanger our food security system and that is in fact something the committee ought to look into. So I just want to put on the record that I'm not exactly impressed with the minister's press release.
In his press release as well, he does mention the impact of carbon taxes. There is a document from Environment Canada, entitled Turning the Corner, that clearly mentions the $65-per-tonne carbon tax that the Conservative government is going to implement in secret, and not be open and transparent about, as Mr. Dion has been. I wonder if it's possible for us to ask the clerk to get a copy of that document talking about the Government of Canada's $65-a-tonne carbon tax, and distribute it to committee members.