Thank you, Chair.
Thanks to the minister for being here today.
As he noted in his opening, I believe he referred to recommendation 43 being the last one from the Weatherill report to be completed. Recommendation 43 actually speaks to recommendations 6 and 20 of the Weatherill report. I will read from the last half of section 6. This is a quote from the Weatherill report:
Meat processors should not wait for requests for information from the CFIA inspectors and should, in the interests of food safety, ensure that inspectors have all information they require.
I would draw the minister's attention to the timeline that he supplied to us, showing that indeed it was the CFIA that was actually making the requests, not necessarily XL Foods that was providing them voluntarily. Section 20, which is on page 43 of the report, also speaks to that:
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency should formally communicate its expectation that registered meat processors will bring all information with potential consequences for food safety to the attention of their assigned inspector in a timely manner.
Around the document issue, Mr. Minister, it has been clear in the CFIA's timeline that one of the weaknesses of this particular incident was the availability of the information in a timely fashion and the fact that, in the vernacular of the CFIA, a lot of CARs were put out there—calls basically requesting information. There were delays in that process.
Can you point to me in Bill S-11 where sections 6 and 20—the two recommendations in the Weatherill report—will be fulfilled in the mandate of Bill S-11, understanding, of course, that there is a piece in Bill S-11 that talks to the production of documents when requested? Sections 6 and 20 call for more than just the production of documents when requested; they actually call for the facilities to produce them without a request, knowing full well something is occurring.
Can you help me find that in Bill S-11?