Well, we've had a number of bills before the House that talked about tampering with food. There are things under Health Canada and things under CFIA.
We get these hoaxes. Around Thanksgiving, you always end up with somebody saying that they've done something to a turkey. Whether they did it or not, you still have to treat it as though it has happened, and you seek to bring that product back in. CFIA resources, Public Health Agency resources, and the store owners themselves all take part in that. It is a three-way partnership to make sure that food is safe.
What Bill S-11 does is make sure that if someone does that and they've shown intent by warning that they're doing it, they can be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and beyond, should it be required. It's just not on, those types of things. It's like talking about a bomb in an airport. Whether you did it or you didn't, it still creates a furor that is hard to dispel.
The one thing that people need to realize is that food safety is not a static exercise. HACCP programs, the CVS report card on the HACCP programs, what CFIA does, and what the Public Health Agency are not a static operation. It's a living document, or a living tree in a lot of respects, in that things ebb and flow.
As a plant like XL expands or does things differently, those changes call for different HACCP controls and for different reporting on those controls, and they call for different people and different training for the CFIA staff. There's ongoing and constant staff training, upgrading, and so on at CFIA to adjust for what industry is doing. They give us their plans and we analyze them. When we say, “Yes, this looks better”, CFIA will staff up accordingly. There are those living, breathing changes all the time that are to be adjusted to.
At the end of the day, that partnership among industry, CFIA, Health Canada, and the provincial health boards is to make sure your food is safe. The provinces concentrate on facilities at the provincial level, such as the Costco in Edmonton or restaurants and all those types of things. The Public Health Agency assembles all that data nationally to make sure there aren't spikes somewhere that show unhealthy food products out there. Then CFIA reacts to it, proactively as much as we can. That's what Bill S-11 seeks to do: add more tools to the proactive side of their tool kit.