I don't think we can conclude that there are more cost recovery fees than necessary. The situation now across the federal government is that if we want to make changes to our cost recovery fees, under the user fee act we would have to bring something to Parliament and you'd see it.
We have had discussions with stakeholders, including grower groups and registrants, for a few years on our cost recovery initiative. We are certainly cognizant of the fact that in this area there is a strong likelihood that fees put upon the registrants are then passed on to those who are buying the products. In our opinion at PMRA, the registrants aren't the sole party getting a benefit from the sale of the pesticides, since pesticides are important in the economic sector in Canada. They are very important in the agriculture sector, the forestry sector, and the lumber sector.
The amount of our total budget that we get from cost recovery fees—I don't have it in my head as a percentage, but I believe our spending envelope total last year was about $47 million, of which about $7 million we were bringing in by cost recovery. Again, what government does through the estimates is set a cap, which is the amount of cost recovery fees that we keep in our budget. Last fiscal year and this fiscal year are the first times in our history we've gone above that, and it's primarily due to more submissions coming in.