Madam Chair, I'd be pleased to answer that question.
The CFIA takes the compliance verification system very seriously. It is one of the essential aspects of ensuring that we have safe food.
Following Sheila Weatherill's recommendations, we took a very hard look at our compliance verification system. We did that in many ways. We asked experts to actually look at the tasks that make up CVS, and they produced a report, which I believe has been made available to this committee through the progress report the government has tabled.
We conducted a front-line assessment, for which we met across the country with a variety of front-line inspectors with the Agriculture Union present, to make sure that we had discussions on how CVS was being implemented and what the challenges were. We took all that information together, and there were in fact recommendations for improving CVS. We have acted on those recommendations.
The recommendations related to more inspection capacity, which we're putting in place. There were suggestions about tools, and we are improving connectivity among inspectors. They related to the nature of updating the meat manual of procedures, which we have updated and are keeping up to date. They related to the number of CVS tasks, and in fact we took a very hard look at the CVS tasks and added CVS tasks.
I'm quite confident in saying that we took a very hard look at CVS, in conjunction with the union. That information is public, and we are acting on what we found to improve CVS.