Thank you, Mr. Chair.
There are lots of questions here, but we'll start with you, Nelson.
First of all, thank you both for coming. We appreciate your coming before the committee.
I think one of the key points you made is about an acceptable audit regime. We were told when McCains were here--I guess it was by CFIA, and I guess it was Dr. Evans, or it might have been one of the others--that to disassemble these slicing machines would be a problem; they're huge. But as I understand it, the pharmaceutical industry has to disassemble their machines at every product line run, and they're huge too.
On the preventive side, are there areas we can move in in this way to prevent this from happening again? Is audit part of it? Is it only part of it? You've been with the system 40 years. You've seen when audits were required. I don't disagree with you at all in terms of all the changes that have been made. Usually they're not made in terms of food safety, I think it's sad to say. They're usually made as a result of government cutbacks, resources, and people--doing more with less money. It's not the way you build an excellent food safety system in the country. And that's not a political comment or a partisan comment; that's government.
What would you recommend in that area in terms of audits? Do we have to go back to where we were? Do we have more stringent requirements? Do we have audits and manufacturers' recommendations or what?