On the CVS issue, we had discussions when you were before the Subcommittee on Food Safety. We were informed at committee that there really was no report on the pilot. Yet Ms. Weatherill, in her report, states:
We were told that an evaluation of the CVS pilot was prepared but was not discussed throughout the CFIA hierarchy.
We heard that, because these essential steps were not taken, gaps between the Meat Hygiene Manual of Procedures—the regulatory framework—and the CVS were never identified and, therefore, not resolved.
Again, there's a discrepancy between that and what I think we were told at committee. Certainly the CVS pilot was implemented back quite a time by the previous government. I think the intent was that the pilot would be evaluated to see if it worked, what could be learned by that process, so that better procedures could be brought into place. I find it hard to believe there's not a report written and that the evaluation isn't available to us. When Ms. Weatherill talks about it in her report, she certainly states there was one prepared, but it was not discussed through the CFIA.
What's your view? What happened here?