Thank you. I just wanted to go back to something that to me is an extraordinarily important thing to protect: the health and safety of Canadians.
To the CFIA, if you look at what your actual expenditures were in 2013-14, they were $805.7 million. Then we go to the main estimates for 2014-15 and there is a significant drop from $805 million to $619 million. Albeit in your supplementary you spent $691 million and you've moved that up to $698 million in your main estimates today, there is still a significant shortfall since 2013 of $107 million. For me, the answer that we have the best food safety system in the world doesn't wash, when every time we've heard of a problem it's because the United States refuses to take our food. Recently, this whole XL Foods thing came about because the FDA decided that it didn't want to have the beef that had come in recently.
I just need to know exactly how many meat inspectors were employed in 2013, 2014, and 2015; whether we have positions unfilled; and what the training is that's required for these inspectors. Finally, the last one is that of course it is said that 271 full-time equivalent employees will be eliminated from the meat and poultry program. What does that mean? How is that going to impact food safety?