I'll start first.
Yes, absolutely, it should be an independent third party. Of course, the difficulty with CFIA is that it has a dual mandate in which it's not only responsible for ensuring the safety of the food system but it is also responsible for helping promote exports and so on to other countries. It's charged not only with facilitating the industry's success but also with safeguarding public interest.
It's a very fine line, I think, when you're trying to balance those two. Which one gets priority when it comes to the crunch here? If you have an agency whose primary role is ensuring that the public interest is protected, then I think it's very clear where that priority lies. Having inspectors on the shop floor...I think what we've seen with that plant in Toronto where they said, “Yes, we've made a mistake, now we'll get back to a reasonable workload for that particular inspector”, shows that the system of trying to stretch those people beyond what's reasonable simply doesn't work.