Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  That takes place before the end product goes out the door. Everybody has a responsibility in sanitizing, cleaning, and checking how the product is handled, how they dress, and whether they wash their hands or not, and whether they come to work sick. But employees have to be trained and be told why what they have to do is important.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Inspections were the norm, unpredictable stop-ins by inspectors to not only assess the inspection of the sanitization of our equipment, but also the aesthetic value, in some respects, of how you simply looked after your farm and your buildings. I'm sort of interested to find out a little more from you in terms of it likely being market-driven but you would like to see it as mandatory.

Foreign Affairs committee  Combined, these funds are contributing to the efforts of trusted humanitarian partners to assist up to 250,000 people displaced by the conflict with much needed medical care, emergency shelter, protection, clean water, and sanitation services. Between October 2008 and January 2009, Canadian funding for the World Food Programme operations has, among other things, helped send 11 convoys into the Vanni region and distribute 10,619 metric tonnes of food assistance via land and sea.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  On September 5 new directives were immediately implemented to require industry to more thoroughly and aggressively sanitize slicing equipment beyond even the manufacturer's recommendations. Further product and environmental testing programs have been reintroduced and enhanced. You heard Dr. Brian Evans confirm that test results are being constantly reviewed, and the CFIA has reintroduced its own environmental testing as part of the inspection tasks, along with continued government end-product testing.

Foreign Affairs committee  On the same day, he spoke with the UN Secretary-General and raised our humanitarian concerns, which included access to food, water, sanitation, and medical support. He also conveyed Canada's support in responding to the humanitarian crisis. We'll talk about that a little later. The UN Security Council has voiced deep concerns about Sir Lanka, and on April 22 the UN demanded that the LTTE lay down its arms.

International Trade committee  Controlling bacteria, such as E. Coli 0157:H7 in beef, requires huge investments in laboratory testing, plant sanitation, equipment, conveyances, packaging, leading edge technology, and research and development. Existing E. coli intervention, such as steam, lactic acid rinses, and others, is estimated to cost over $5 per head.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Listeria is one of the bugs that...you have to think about it as a house with so many rooms, and if the rooms aren't filled by other bugs, then listeria will move in and fill the rooms. So that kind of gives us the concept that when we've sanitized away other bugs and removed their predators, then there is more listeria. But as you know, it's a bug you can't see, and it's complex.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  In fact, we've always approved essential overtime. I want to come back to the point about inspection of equipment and inspection of sanitation procedures. Going back to my earlier comments, we had two inspectors in the plant. At the night shift, there was an opportunity for that second inspector to have a look at the company employees actually cleaning equipment.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  It was actually the HACCP that said to them that if they were getting positives in the environment and then getting negatives after sanitation, but it kept persisting, there was then something in their HACCP plan saying there was something about the location they needed to rethink. So I think HACCP helped them arrive at a conclusion much earlier than would otherwise have been the case.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Evans mentioned--the compliance verification system--which very clearly sets out tasks for each inspector and targets risk areas. It sort of rotates between certain parts of the plant and certain functions, such as sanitation, employee hygiene, and construction--all these types of things. In that plant, those tasks were completed, as prescribed by the program, by those two inspectors. They had to have been busy, I'm sure, but they did meet all those tasks, and we have that documented.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Before August, the process, as recommended in global best practice, was to respond to each product-positive sample by remediating the site. This means aggressive sanitation, cleaning, and monitoring of the site. Our internal policy was to get three consecutive negatives after a positive on a food contact surface. So before August, this was what the Maple Leaf company did in that facility.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  As you said in the page before, you took 3,000 tests that the CFIA had access to, but in the report it doesn't say whether your folks actually said to them, by the way, we found listeria and we eradicated it by sanitizing. It doesn't actually tell us. So there are two questions here. It doesn't really tell us. Did you inform that inspector who was responsible for your plant that they'd actually seen listeria at that point in time, during that period of testing, because that's a different timeframe?

Fisheries committee  You can't go to see them being steamed, due to the regulatory process; the rooms have to be sanitized and so on. But you can buy a fresh lobster. You can pick out your live green one. The Japanese do it all the time. They bring a big busload in and they pick out their lobster. You have to cook it.

Information & Ethics committee  We don't even have cabinet record verbatim its meetings' minutes. So when I get these 20 years later, I get some sanitized summary, as I do with records of decisions of a lot of agencies. We have a serious problem, not only for history but for access users. We don't keep proper records, so you don't necessarily get an accurate picture of what's going on.

Status of Women  I thank Chris Dendys and Katy Kydd Wright with Results Canada for leading us on this journey and showing us that poverty can be solved one step at a time when women are empowered to tackle basic issues like clean water, sanitation and TB prevention. I also thank the member for New Westminster—Coquitlam for her tireless work in this place, empowering women and fighting for a sustainable, peaceful future. I wish her well on her new journey.