We heard from the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, people from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and also people from Health Canada. Frankly, from hearing them, the crisis was relatively well managed. I get the impression they didn't necessarily read your report. After doing so, however, they quickly responded to you and even attacked you. I'm thinking in particular of Ms. Swan, Mr. Butler-Jones and Mr. Rosenberg, who signed the letter I referred to earlier, the letter of April 20 last. First I would like to know whether you think the federal Minister of Health had a role to play in the crisis, or whether he should have played a role, since we didn't see much of him during that period. We asked him to come here as a witness, but it ultimately took a motion from me this week, on Monday, to finally get someone to think that would be a good thing to do.
Did you see him? Did you hear him? Did Mr. Clement or his department contact you during the crisis?