Mr. Speaker, 700,000 new inspectors, indeed. And the Conservatives do not lie.
The 2012-13 Report on Plans and Priorities for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is very clear: $46.6 million in cuts and 314 employees laid off.
The most recent recall is of tainted meat purchased on September 28. The health alert over the E. coli bacteria went out not one day, three days or seven days later, but 25 days later.
Why was tainted meat still on grocery store shelves last Friday?