I have said, Mr. Bellavance, that there is a great deal of shared responsibility. CFIA is one player in a continuum of players who are responsible for making sure the food Canadians eat is safe. I can direct you to our “Lessons Learned” documents, which we worked at long and hard to make sure we could identify in the agency what had happened and what we could have done better. I find them to be quite stark documents. If you've read them, you'll know they're not public relations pieces. They are quite detailed, technical attempts to understand what happened, what didn't happen, and what we could do better.
On April 20th, 2009. See this statement in context.