Thank you.
I'll start with Mr. Hoback's drive-by smears. It's actually a fact that of the 700 inspectors that were hired, 170 were meat inspectors, none of them in slaughterhouses; they were in processing plants. XL Foods is a slaughterhouse.
It's also a fact, as reported by Sarah Schmidt from Postmedia, that in April, 59 meat inspectors were cut following the budget, with 800 staff at the CFIA actually receiving notice that their positions were in danger. There was no way of knowing which jobs. She asked repeatedly. The department would never give her an answer.
Mr. Aylward, can you actually confirm what I'm saying?