Thank you very much.
Mr. Williams, I would like to congratulate you on the exhaustive report you've prepared since the crisis. It's the report on the management of the listeriosis outbreak that is the most exhaustive. It also contains specific points that are very useful to the committee.
However, I would like to go back to certain remarks you made in the media after the report was tabled. You said that this tragedy would not be the last. In an article in the April 18 issue of Le Soleil, you are reported as saying:
In view of increasingly large-scale food processing methods, it is likely that outbreaks of diseases originating from food will occur increasingly often.
You've no doubt seen the reports of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Health Canada and the measures the government and even Maple Leaf Foods decided to put in place after the crisis occurred. Do you still maintain that we should expect crises of this kind to occur increasingly often? If so, why?