Thank you very much. Thanks to our witnesses for coming here today.
Your report addresses the wide range of issues that illustrate how complicated it is and the challenges that governments face. It's great that you're here to be able to bring this into focus.
I'm going to be speaking about chapter 1, and I'll give you a heads-up that I'll be looking at 1.29 and 1.53, as far as recommendations are concerned.
For the border controls and commercial imports, a diverse range of imported products had their safety regimes analyzed, including fertilizers, health products, pest control products, consumer products, and vehicles, just to name a few things. You also examined how CBSA, CFIA, Health Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and Transport Canada work together to ensure that products comply with the applicable legislations when they enter Canada. The audit showed that adequate controlled inspections take place and that the departments work closely together to ensure we do have product safety.
I think one of the critical points is their coordination, cooperation, and communication so that each group knows what the other is doing. In part of the recommendations, you talk about a process-monitoring framework. I'm wondering if perhaps you can expand upon that so that we could see the level of cooperation. Perhaps they can then be looking at ways of further expanding how they communicate with each other in order to know what is taking place.