Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  That was the feedback we got from various levels of management within CFIA. In fact, because of a cancelled opportunity.... We had what's called a meat inspection reform committee to discuss problems like what was going on within CVS. We had that meeting cancelled in April. We tried to re-establish meetings.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  --simply that it wasn't being authorized. My understanding is that in some cases it may have been based on communication, but the net result was that those critical inspections weren't being done. So we're talking about visual pre-operation, visual sanitation checks, and the audits at Maple Leaf Bartor Road not being done leading up to the situation.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Basically, if I'm running out of time, I want to get to the recommendations. That's on the very last tab. If I have time, I'll come back and cover a couple more bases. We want to ensure that processed meat inspectors are responsible for no more than two ready-to-eat facilities apiece.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  My name is Bob Kingston, and I am the president of the Agriculture Union, a part of PSAC that represents most of the employees within the agriculture portfolio. Contrary to the comments made by the minister earlier, I was in fact an inspector. I was an inspector for 25 years, 15 of those as an inspection supervisor.