With the indulgence of the committee, I handed this in to the clerk at the last meeting and I introduced it verbally to you, but I realize, now that I see it, that I forgot about the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. I think I mentioned it verbally, but forgot to write it into the motion.
It seems to me there's a fair bit of media coverage right now about a number of items having to do with the health of Canadians. To run through them quickly, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is the body that would be responsible for keeping the tainted wheat gluten out of the human food supply. Maybe they're doing it well, but I don't know that, and as a member of the health committee, I would like to know that.
There are a couple of other issues around food under question today in the media. I think one of them had to do with seafood or something. But before the meeting, we could get a couple of questions ready for them.
Concerning the Pest Management Regulatory Agency, those of you who were in the House for question period today heard me talking about one pesticide, in any case, for which the standards are much lower in the States and it looks as if we're adopting their standards. So we need to hear from those people what they're doing and why they are doing it.
I have heard that the Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission, which is another agency at arm's length from the government that protects Canadians' health.... I would like to know if they're changing any of their regulations, because I think we were simply lucky we uncovered this, the reduction in standards that seem to have been suggested under the Quarantine Act in order to harmonize with the American standards, and I'd like to know about these other agencies.