Based on our feedback from inspectors in both Quebec and Ontario, they were routinely refused overtime to come in early to do either the pre-operation or the sanitation verification checks. I understand that in some areas that might have been more of a communication issue than an overtime ban, but the effect from the inspectors' perspective was a ban.
We've checked this out through many sources. The local in Toronto raised this issue with management down there at union-management meetings on several occasions. It was all about cost-cutting. CFIA did not have the resources. This is what they were told.
As I said, there are a couple of people here who could have given you first-hand information about that, one of whom is the person who brought the issue forward to management, and the other is the person who experienced it first-hand in the Montreal region. So that's the contradiction.
At the end of the day, those inspections were not done. Those visual inspections were not done at the Bartor Road Maple Leaf site, and neither were audits leading up to that crisis.