Thank you for the question.
At the Maple Leaf Bartor Road plant, we had at that time, the time you specified, two inspectors. There were two shifts. Each inspector would have been present on the day shift or on the night shift. And it is true, as you indicated, Monsieur Bellavance, that the one inspector on the day shift had seven facilities that he was looking after. His primary facility was the Maple Leaf Bartor Road plant. He had his office there. He operated from that plant. He spent most of his time at that plant.
Four of the seven facilities, in fact, were not really plants as we think of them. They were cold storages. Those cold storages are registered with the federal government, and the work at those cold storages is for export certification and the inspection of imports. It's important work. It's not as time-consuming as in-plant inspections.
As far as the workload and what they were doing in the plant, these inspectors were operating under the system Dr. Evans mentioned--the compliance verification system--which very clearly sets out tasks for each inspector and targets risk areas. It sort of rotates between certain parts of the plant and certain functions, such as sanitation, employee hygiene, and construction--all these types of things. In that plant, those tasks were completed, as prescribed by the program, by those two inspectors. They had to have been busy, I'm sure, but they did meet all those tasks, and we have that documented.
As far as time spent on the plant floor, this is something that's been talked about quite a bit since last summer. The allegation seems to be that inspectors don't have an opportunity to walk around the plant, look at the construction, talk to employees, and look at the equipment. In fact, that's an integral part of what an inspector does.
I had the opportunity last fall to go across the country and meet with more than 100 inspectors to discuss this and other really important issues and how they felt about this. The consensus was that the compliance verification system is a good system. It had some growing pains, but they were able to spend an adequate amount of time on the plant floor. Our records indicate that about 50% of their time is spent on the plant floor. They're looking at the whole system. They're looking at the plant records and making sure that they're all appropriate, and then they're going out onto the plant floor and verifying that those things are done correctly.