Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for being here this morning. This is very interesting testimony.
Mr. de Valk, I went through your testimony in the Senate committee. I thought I'd give you a chance to elaborate on some of your comments. I'll quote what you said:
Since all food manufacturers and importers of food products compete for this share of the Canadian consumers' stomach, all food products should be subject to the same food safety act. That is what we are starting to do. Before, regulation of poultry was one thing, beef another, fruit and vegetables another and dairy was another. We are now saying, “When we have a rule for safe food, it applies to everybody the same way.”
I think you're talking about the bringing together of the different acts and the different areas.
Do you have an example of a situation where an inspector comes to one facility and then one would have to wait two or three weeks for a different inspector to go to that same facility because they're handling two or three different products?