Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for coming.
There's been a lot of discussion through this whole issue, actually, about communications: that actually the minister hasn't been in front and wasn't part of it. I think Mr. Wilson has indicated that fairly clearly in his reference to us, saying, “In the listeria outbreak the Public Health Agency of Canada, however, was not the public face of the response.” They were at every one of the public meetings and announcements that were there.
He said, “The primary communication of the status of the outbreak was conducted” and carried out “by the CFIA and the Minister of Agriculture.” We've always said that this has been a joint effort in terms of communications. I don't think, quite honestly, that there's.... When we've listened to witnesses, we know there are lessons to be learned. We will always do that.
Mr. Attaran, you've gone back over the number of incidents. I would like to have a discussion around Walkerton, around the value of that one, because I don't agree with you on all things, certainly not in terms of what our inquiries will do for the protection of the general public.
I'd like to go to Ms. Bose for a second. In your comments, you talked about research. Actually, after listening to quite a bit of it, I'm sort of wondering why we're even here. It sounds like we have such a terrible system in Canada that most people will not survive our public health system, which we know isn't true.
You have a research document that is pretty damning, quite honestly, to the health system. That was carried out by the Public Service Alliance of Canada. It was taken, I guess, between April 25 and May 3. Would you present the questions to us, please? I know there's an e-mail here. I'm wondering if you could present to the committee, actually, the questions that were asked during that survey so that we would know the context in which you got the answers. That is a request I would like to make.
Secondly, I think you made the comment.... I forget the word here. You said you had an awful time; it was “sleuthing” to meet her. When did you meet with her?