Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  The other point, in terms of recommendations, is that I think it's the job of the committee. It's fine if we take suggested recommendations from people, but it's actually the job of this committee to try to put the recommendations together. People can make their suggestions as to what we should do, and we certainly welcome that.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  So are you suggesting every truckload be inspected? What's your solution, then?

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I want to talk about a couple of the other things. You made six points at the beginning, and one of them was that lab samplings are not carried out by CFIA meat inspectors. But there are meat monitoring programs for microbiological and chemical testing in the country, right?

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  But our inspectors also can pull loads out and inspect them when they want to, right? You do the pre-inspection certificate down on 10% of the loads, but inspectors can pull another load out and say, “I want to take a look at this.” It seems to me that things have changed. Expectations are so much higher now.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  No checks and balances, because when people are caught in non-compliance, they're shut down for access to either country going either way. Isn't that correct?

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Isn't that what happens?

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  So you're not being entirely straightforward there when you're saying it's not being done by CFIA meat and port inspectors, but it is being done, right?

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Can you tell me a little bit about your training program? What do you train people to do? What level are they trained to when you're done training them?

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  The general information about imports on import-export.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  One other comment you made—

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Okay, just quickly. Canada inspects no import meat shipments at the port of entry. That's true. But the reality is that reinspection is done in other federal reinspection facilities that are made to handle meat, right? That's the point. That was one of the changes made, to put in place better facilities for handling those inspections.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you both for being here tonight. Mr. Caron, you talked about meat import. If the meat's coming in from the United States, is it all partially or fully inspected when it comes into the country?

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Okay. And so we treat the United States differently because of NAFTA. Is that right? We have an agreement with them that our systems are pretty much equivalent, and both countries accept that?

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Okay. Now, I'm just wondering, the problem, in your opinion, with our giving them advance notice is what--that some of the other shipments are not properly processed? Or is it with the shipments that we've said we're going to inspect?

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  What's your suggestion--that every truckload coming across the border be inspected individually?