Health committee  Thank you for your question. I don't know the exact figures, but I can gather them for the committee. We can definitely provide those numbers. I would say though, regarding prosecutions, that we do regularly refer issues to the public prosecution service for their considerati

Health committee  Or domestically.

Health committee  We are absolutely, whether it's foreign or domestic, regularly sampling food to make sure it's compliant with all of the regulations. There are instances when we do refer things to public prosecution. In addition to that, if you look, you'll see we are regularly recalling foods,

Health committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, for the member's question. We're very much aware of that study. We are deeply concerned not just about seafood, but frankly about the issue of food fraud more generally, and in particular, economically motivated food fraud. It's not just fish; you

Health committee  We are definitely concerned with the increase we are seeing in the areas of economically motivated food fraud and we are working to be able to invest more in this area, but it is an area of growing concern.

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the member's question. At the urging of this committee and others, CFIA now makes public the number of inspectors that we have in the agency. That report is available to committee members. The number of inspection staff overall is stable and often incr

Public Accounts committee  Very briefly, Mr. Chair, in response to the questions, as my colleagues have said, we've put a lot of emphasis on prevention, on training, to make sure that people understand their responsibilities. As Deputy Kennedy said, we've gone to one system. We realized that there were t

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the member's question. We have completed it. Compared with the previous 185 days, as the Auditor General found, we're now operating at just 41 days. The system is in place, and we've seen a marked improvement. We'll continue to make efforts to further i

Public Accounts committee  We believe we are well on track to be doing this. We are working very closely with our bargaining agents. I will say that as a regulatory agency too, we are using this opportunity not just to look at our own internal risk of fraud; a lot of the work that our inspectors do is to

Public Accounts committee  I would just say that frankly we do this to ourselves as deputy heads—we set the policies for our own organizations. One thing we've realized is that we have to be smarter in our way of delivering our mandatory training. At CFIA, we have about eight modules that are all mandatory

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for your question. I am happy to inform you that we are going to put in place the necessary system to collect all of the data to ensure that all of our measures are up to date and coordinated. We increased the number of people who manage the allegations in order to be

Public Accounts committee  In response to some lessons learned, and trying to knit together some of the other questions, for the part of it around data, we realized we needed to centralize the controls. We had too many systems. We now have one system for procurement. We have a vice-president of the corpora

Public Accounts committee  Let me begin by saying that we absolutely agree that 34% is not an acceptable number. As Mr. Kennedy said earlier this week, we take a risk-based approach to these things, so while it is mandatory, we are targeting those we feel need it the most. With respect to the number, we

Public Accounts committee  Particularly at the CFIA, in some instances it is a question of the sheer volume—thousands of import/export certificates every day and numerous inspections occurring in facilities right across the country. Also, we've gone from a system in which we were very prescriptive—all we a

Public Accounts committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair. My name is Paul Glover, and I am President of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. I appreciate being invited to speak concerning our response to the Auditor General's report on fraud risk. I would just like to begin by saying the CFIA is a risk-based