Agriculture committee  Yes. That which has been announced deals with the consolidation of import document review; improving our seed certification programs; removing the mandatory pre-market label review for meat, processed fruit, and vegetable; feed inspection harmonization; and adjustment to our avian influenza preparedness program.

Agriculture committee  That was made public in budget 2008.

Agriculture committee  We don't have all of those finalized at this point, because those adjustments don't kick in until future years in terms of implementation.

Agriculture committee  Yes, a regulatory plan has been published that talks about the changes that are necessary as they relate to—

Agriculture committee  It is not there yet because the implementation of those changes has not been scheduled to take place, and for some not until 2010-11. So as we said before, we consult. We will be consulting with industry, with provinces, and with consumers about the actual details of the plans prior to their full implementation.

Agriculture committee  As I said, there's a progression on each of these. Each of them has an individual timeline for when it's scheduled to be implemented in terms of the reallocation of the funding.

Agriculture committee  Over two years.

Agriculture committee  I can only speak to the fact that budget 2008 identified those initiatives that had been approved for implementation.

Agriculture committee  Obviously, our role as public servants is to give our best advice and ultimately government will determine whether that advice is advice that they wish to accept.

Agriculture committee  What I indicated is that in terms of our overall inspection staff we've seen an increase of 200 inspectors, as you've indicated, over the past two years. I've also pointed out on numerous occasions before this committee that our veterinary cadre, which we see as one of several very important scientific disciplines to advance our efforts, has itself grown from 470 to 734 over 10 years.

Agriculture committee  That's correct.

Agriculture committee  That's what I said, yes.

Agriculture committee  That was in our opening comments, yes.

Agriculture committee  That's correct.

Agriculture committee  That's correct.