Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you all for your attendance today.
As has been noted, I'm not a member of this committee, so I'll deal with what I do know, which is what is in front of me. What I heard Mr. Kingston say, I thought, was shocking. It should shock and scare everyone—and I wrote it down—that “it's just a matter of time before you see it happen again”.
We even know from the report that politicians have accepted that, “Although safety is a relative notion, since there is no such thing as a zero risk, members still believe food produced in Canada remains among the safest in the world.”
What I'm hearing, Mr. Kingston, is that if we don't get dramatic change, in your opinion we're going to see something preventable and similar happen again. Yet if resources are invested, recognizing that zero risk is not attainable, you would then feel differently about making that statement.
Am I correct in interpreting your statement to mean that if nothing further is done from today forward, it's your prediction—representing the people who are on the ground, the inspectors and others—that we're going to see a similar preventable incident?