Thank you for that.
I understand what you're saying about the education component, and that's admirable, but let's not be mistaken that somehow everyone is hooked into the Internet. A great many Canadians across this land don't have access. In fact, this summer I gave up using mine. When you're still hooked into dial-up, you don't do it anymore. And I'm pretty savvy; I know how to use it. I have the equipment. I don't have to go to my public library like a lot of folks do.
So that becomes an issue unto itself, but clearly when we were looking at a situation where Maple Leaf foods, and Michael McCain as the CEO, thought he needed to do something in a public manner that we didn't do, he communicated openly through every means he had available to him—through an Internet website, through the press, through press conferencing—making sure he became the public face of listeriosis. He's a private person and a private operator of a company that was affected by that.
Where was our public face across this country that asked what we needed to disseminate information? I've said it to Mr. McCain, and I'll say it here again: I believe Mr. McCain did everything humanly possible and was as open and honest as he humanly could be, but it was his plant that the contaminated food came from. How do you restore trust and confidence in the public if it's not our face out there saying here's how you have faith and trust in the process, when someone from private industry who is affected by it is saying...? We could have supplemented...in fact, we should be leading. He would have been the supplement to us as that voice, so we could have been saying what you needed to do, what was happening, the recall was happening, what you do next in the process, and absolutely could have helped Mr. McCain and Maple Leaf by being the validator of all these correct things. I didn't see that, and Canadians who talked to me in my riding are saying they didn't see it either. I'm wondering why we didn't.