Mr. Chair, over the past 10 years Canada has tested 7,200 animals. The minister announced that 8,000 animals would be tested in 2004 and that we are heading towards testing 30,000 animals in the next five years.
Considering that the Europeans, for example, tested 19 million animals in 2003, and that all the animals in England, France and Japan are tested, does he not think that testing 8,000 animals is rather minimal when it comes to restoring the confidence of Canadian beef importers?
I have a second supplementary. He did not specify earlier when I talked about monitoring and a separate inspection system for each region of Canada, but what exactly made him refuse?