Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. McCain, for being here today.
I would like to acknowledge your willingness to take responsibility for the products that were produced in your plant, which resulted in the deaths of 21 people. I'm glad to hear you say again today that you stand by those statements and take full responsibility for the role that Maple Leaf played in that.
I want to talk to you a little bit about the environmental testing here. I guess I need a little bit of clarification. You said there is no environmental monitoring policy in place, or there wasn't last summer. There was a policy in place up until 2005. Can you tell me how that impacted on testing in the plant? I understand it was changed. It's mentioned in our “Lessons Learned” document here. I'm just wondering if you can tell me what was happening prior to 2005, and what changed at that point? Would that have affected the discovery of listeria?