That goes to the point that we now have producers operating on such a scale that their products are not only consumed across this country but could be consumed up and down North America and beyond, depending on the product. It seems to me that the traceability of product becomes much harder, and when we are not notifying at an appropriate time, albeit there may have been a risk analysis....
I'm not sure how one does risk analysis with food, in the sense of assessing how safe you can be. I heard Mr. McCain say that whenever CFIA sets the base level, they'll work above it. Then, it seems to me, CFIA should adopt that as a base, and there should be a never-ending, continual process of getting better. But I'll leave that for them to answer when they come back.
If indeed we are in an age of mass production of food, in the sense that these plants are huge and are producing vast quantities, are there other things out there that we should be doing? I'm noticing that this was a non-notifiable disease. It doesn't matter whether the province decided upon it or we decided upon it. It seems that we as a federal regulator need to start thinking in broader concepts, even though there are requirements within the provinces and they have their own jurisdictions. Now that we are seeing food substances go across the provinces, it becomes incumbent upon us to take more of a leadership role to make sure we have this type of notification.
I'm wondering where you are going to be headed with that, because it seems to me that this can be very critical as we go forward.