Mr. Speaker, the XL Foods contamination problem continues. The whole plant is now shut down. The company fell short of proper standards way back in August and the government's inspection system failed to be on top of it then. That is partly because government inspectors do not actually inspect much any more. They just monitor company inspections. Even worse, 12 days went by before Canadians were told.
Why did the science take that long? Is it because the government fired 90 biologists, the scientists whose job it was to do that science?