Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I have a theory, and I don't know if it's accurate or not. When Nelson and I started, the managers were all meat people. They were all veterinarians and had worked as inspectors. Now at CFIA you might be reporting to somebody with a plant background. They don't put the same importance on the training aspect of meat inspection because they don't know what's involved in it.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  As a Canadian Food Inspection Agency inspector for 35 years, I worked in meat slaughter plants and processing plants and spent a majority of my career as a CFIA border inspector. I was an inspector in charge of two CFIA-approved import meat inspection establishments. I wrote a CFIA import meat inspection training manual and developed and delivered an import meat inspection training program to CFIA inspectors in the Ontario area.