My apologies for being late, but I knew this would happen this morning.
At the outset I'll say welcome. It's almost a breath of fresh air to see some progress being made at PMRA after so many years of what we felt was less than adequate performance. And that perhaps is an unfair judgment of PMRA, but I think we've moved beyond a certain point, which is the reason for our requiring you to come twice a year. So we want to thank you for coming this morning.
I missed out on some of the questions, so I hope my questions will not be repeats of what has been asked before.
Manufacturers, obviously, are looking for the greatest share of the market they can find, and obviously introducing a product into numerous countries at a particular time is important. My understanding is that PMRA has entered into new joint agreements, “review initiatives”, if you want to use that term, with the United States, Australia, and one with Austria. Obviously, there are things that we would find as common between all of these countries. If we were to look at issues that can be deemed to be common.... Let's basically look at the United States, because they're our neighbours and we commonly talk about harmonization, and if there's harmonization with the Americans, we really don't care about what happens with Australia, particularly. But if we could harmonize with the United States, we would feel we've made some progress.
What would be some common areas where you would be able to check that one off and say that one is now behind us, it is not an area where we have to do further study or further science? What are those issues that we would consider as common points where we can agree we'd go forward on? If it works in Michigan, it works in Ontario. We know the geography, the land type, and the soil type and those kinds of things. What are the really common things that we can take off the table?