The CFIA was created about 15 years ago, with the ambition of legislative reform and consolidation of the statutes that existed at the time. As was mentioned, the Safe Food for Canadians Act was enacted by Parliament late in 2012. That represented a major breakthrough in terms of consolidating food legislation and focusing more squarely on prevention and food safety.
Legislative renewal remains part of our overall modernization agenda at the agency. This bill and the proposed amendments to the agricultural inputs statutes build on some of the same thinking and provisions that exist under the Safe Food for Canadians Act.
We'll provide a solid platform for regulatory renewal across the various plant health and animal health programs, and we'll enable our regulatory modernization. We have a very significant and ambitious undertaking at the agency to modernize not only legislation but regulations. Combined with that particular body of work, we are pursuing a program to modernize inspection and how we deliver on the front line.
Bill C-18 represents a very significant element in terms of our overall modernization agenda at the CFIA.