Mr. McCain, I'd like to go back to your statement to go over a couple of things.
On page 4--and you said this a couple of times--you note what happened last summer “was a failure of expectations not a failure of inspection.” And then you wrote:
We believe that the role for government should be built around four key principles:
1) Defining with detail, the requirements and expectations of an operator to deliver a strong and effective food safety program.
I'd like your opinion on whether the changes on April 1 have done that. The CFIA have made a number of changes there. We had a convoluted discussion about M200 and M205 earlier, but I understand that what was in the M205 sampling program is back in there, six times a year, and that's going to be part of that.
Your second statement is:
2) Building inspection and testing adequate to validate and verify compliance with the regulatory expectations, with tough accountability....
I would like to focus on that and ask you for your suggestions on how we can ensure corporate cooperation in the light, first of all, of our wish to ensure that a number of small operators continue to survive. That may not be your focus, but I think it should be part of the focus, especially of those of us who come from rural areas. I wonder how we can set a system in place that can deal with operations like yours, but with those that are much smaller as well.
Secondly, how do we do this? How do we build this inspection and testing structure, when you say that the failure really was not inspection? It sounds like there was enough inspection. Is it the analysis of the data? Is that what we need? Do we need more data? Do we need to analyze it differently? And if that's the case, what suggestions do you have for the CFIA in order to do that?