Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I'm aware that you have not used any of those powers.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I will answer your question, but may I ask you something briefly first?

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Is this matter about the protection of Canadians or about a partisan attack on evidence? To ask me whether I've been employed by the Liberal Party, or the NDP, or the Bloc, or the Conservative Party--

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  --is to engage in a partisan approach--

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  --to what is a fundamental threat to the health of Canadians.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I have not.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  No.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  If it is published by Elections Canada, then kindly tell me what you have found by looking it up.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  You do not need to engage—

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I have never donated money to a political party, neither to the Liberals nor to the NDP. I have donated money to individual candidates. I'm not a member of either party. I would be delighted to donate money to individual candidates of the Conservative Party who demonstrated exemp

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  If your line of questioning is to approach my testimony in partisan terms, then you are failing to address the fact that this year, as people over summer eat ready-to-eat meats, standards are as they were last year when—

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  —22 people died. That's a more serious matter—

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  —than any question about political parties.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I did answer that question.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Define “personal relationship”.