Thank you for that question.
We have for many years delivered inspection activities in three of the ten provinces: British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. In delivering those services, under an arrangement with those provinces—all provinces in Canada have their own inspection regimes—we have been working with them to deliver against the standards set out in those individual provinces. Those are the only three provinces where we provide that service. The other provinces, in addition to setting their own food safety regimes, deliver the inspections within their provinces.
Consistent with your earlier question, we are working very hard at the agency to bring down administrative costs and to ensure that we are focusing on our areas of responsibility. With that in mind, we are working with those three provinces to transfer responsibility for delivering provincial meat inspection systems back to those provinces.
A number of CFIA employees are involved in that. We have 68 federal meat inspectors involved in that transition, and that transition will take place over the next 18 months or so.