At the time of the audit and with the evidence that the auditors had available to them, in fact, there was a continuing challenge that we faced in working with our colleagues to meet the lab demands of our colleagues at CFIA. The lab network is under my responsibilities. With the investments from the 2016 budget, in fact, we've been able to augment that capacity by about 40%, so in fact we've very much strengthened the work that we do. Are there areas particularly in terms of surveillance where there are opportunities to do better? Of course, there still are, and we are looking at opportunities to use third party networks as well. It's a commitment that we've jointly made to look at, so labs on the east coast or the west coast.
On November 29th, 2018. See this statement in context.