Mr. Speaker, when challenged about what he would have done differently in handling the XL Foods recall, the agriculture minister replied, “CFIA would have been a lot harder-nosed”. Finally, we have an admission of complacency, yet still nothing to take responsibility, nothing to reverse food safety cuts, nothing to reassure Canadians that our inspectors are protecting our food.
Now Canadians have learned that unregulated in-house tenderizing processes could also be making them sick.
What is the minister going to do to ensure that the CFIA addresses the problem of the contamination from meat tenderizing?