In our regular agriculture committee we're conducting a competitiveness study of all aspects of food delivery, including slaughter, grocery stores, or whatever. Grocery stores here in Ontario, and I think mostly across the country, have a policy that none of their stores, even the independent ones, are allowed to sell provincially inspected beef or pork, because they buy through their wholesale partners. Do you think they have any justification for that from a food safety point of view?
On May 13th, 2009. See this statement in context.