Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our guests for coming.
This is an interesting and actually very beneficial process that we're going through. In terms of helping to determine all this, I think maybe some of the objectives are different from one side of the table to the other.
Quite honestly, I have the greatest of respect for Maple Leaf Foods. Mr. McCain made a presentation here. This came from his plant, this happened in his equipment, and there is a responsibility that he has accepted. I said it before and I'll keep saying it: I think all of us, quite honestly, at all levels could learn a lot about how to handle a crisis situation from the way he did it. I think he and his company have led by example in terms of accepting responsibility.
From this perspective, when we brought in this subcommittee, it wasn't just about listeriosis; it was about food safety also. I just want to make it clear what it's really about--namely, what happened? What did we learn from it? How do we move ahead? We still recognize, certainly, the sympathy that goes to those who were ill, and particularly to those families who were affected by losses.
I appreciate having the chief medical officer of health's report on the management of the 2008 listeriosis outbreak in Ontario. I want to just go back to the start, going back to June and July.
It says in here that on July 25--and this may involve Dr. McKeown also--“Public Health Division detects an increase in reported cases of listeriosis through monitoring iPHIS data.”
Was this just in Toronto?