Mr. Chairman, this is a good question too. In fact, the agency was created in 1997 to avoid some of these overlaps between federal departments in terms of jurisdiction over the food safety issue.
The agency's mandate involves food safety at the delivery end and animal and plant health from a policy and delivery perspective. What it means is that for food safety, Health Canada develops standards, and the agency's responsibility is to make sure that these standards are implemented. So from that standpoint, there is no Health Canada inspector going around looking at food plants. The agency does that.
Health Canada has also been given the responsibility to oversee how the agency does its inspections. So from that standpoint, I think we're in good shape.
When I started, way back in 1972, I was a veterinarian in a slaughter plant. The manager of the plant saw a procession of inspectors. There was one from Health. He had us. There was somebody from CCA. This is all gone. There is only one presence now in the federal sector in terms of food inspection, and it's us. I think we're in good shape from that standpoint.