Pierre Lemieux at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

On November 27th, 2014. See this statement in context.

November 27th, 2014 / 12:35 p.m.

Conservative

Pierre Lemieux Conservative Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON

Good, thank you very much.

Let me just shift gears a little; let me comment on food safety. My colleagues are probably aware that a recent third-party report indicated Canada had the best food safety system in the world, and then recent polling within Canada showed Canadians have extremely high confidence in our food safety systems here.

I noticed that the estimates are also moving additional funding into food safety, biosecurity, and traceability, and traceability is certainly a core element of our food safety system.

Could you perhaps share with the committee how the increased funding in traceability, biosecurity, and food safety will help the department do the work it needs to do in these respective areas?

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