Mr. Chairman, as you will remember, I provided some element of an answer to that question already. I've mentioned that the agency will be providing to the members of the committee a comparison of cost-recovery cases in Canada and the United States.
But to answer your question in two words, it varies, depending on the commodities. For example, we charge for meat inspection on the basis of inspection stations. If we have five inspectors there, there will be a certain amount of money that we'd recover on the basis of their presence in the plant. In the States, they recover, over time, at a rate that is an actual rate.
When we implemented cost recovery in 1993, we looked at the overall cost to the different sectors in the States and in Canada, and we did not see that Canadian industries or producers were disadvantaged, comparatively speaking. The measures are different, but the overall cost was compatible at the time.