International Trade committee  Madam Chair, as I mentioned in my opening comments, I've been with the industry for 25 years, and I have never seen that. With respect to the disinfectants, I have never seen an industry work harder during a pandemic to be able to work with Health Canada to provide Canadians wit

International Trade committee  Madam Chair, I think that this regulation does exactly what you want it to do. The collaboration will continue, because our new hygiene reality is here to stay. The demand for the disinfectants is not waning. We're still seeing a 210% increase in submissions at Health Canada. The

International Trade committee  The companies do, yes.

International Trade committee  We still get a DIN at the end of the day. We get a Health Canada approval and we have a bilingual label.

International Trade committee  Madam Chair, that would be our assertion, yes.

International Trade committee  This regulation speaks to the innovation that was able to be brought to the Canadian marketplace during COVID with electrostatic sprayers. I know this is a little inside baseball, but these are sprayers that were able to be used to deliver disinfectants to disinfect areas such ai

International Trade committee  That could be phase two of the regulation.

International Trade committee  No, it does not.

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  They're just different review processes within Health Canada. You can have a novel product and you can bring that into the Canadian marketplace. That's one pathway, or you can use the UFD as another pathway. To address some of the concerns that were raised with respect to Mr. Ca

International Trade committee  We have had concerns, as we've gone along, with the regulation. I wanted to thank Health Canada for their continued collaboration with all of the industry and stakeholders to hear everyone's concerns about the regulation. There have been some concerns around fee lines. One was

International Trade committee  Absolutely. I think that's one of the things on which Health Canada has been very responsive. We've been able to address those concerns by bringing this data package to Canadian companies. We know that we have active ingredient suppliers who have no intention of bringing any end-

International Trade committee  Our member companies have a wide range of products. Just in the biocide space, we represent 70% of the household use. Due to the complexities around institutional and hospital settings, we represent the industry leaders in that space.

International Trade committee  Thank you for asking about how we do our policy inside our organization. It is very collaborative and consensus-based. We represent all of the companies that work in the space. We ultimately want to have good public policy at the end of the day that drives jobs in Canada and driv

International Trade committee  I know you look a bit suspicious, but it's true—