Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks, Ms. Dodds.
I do believe PMRA has made good progress in the last number of years. On the cost recovery fee issue, maybe I should have known, but I didn't realize that the fees are going back to general revenue over and above a certain cap, I guess. One of the difficulties with cost recovery fees in any event, whether it's put on the registration costs or on the product in other ways, is that all those fees get back down to the primary producer one way or another. If it's a cost to the company it eventually gets back down to the producer, and certainly sometimes with what's considered higher registration fees and R and D fees in Canada, the company doesn't even bother trying to develop a product for a specific market here.
How did we get to the point that there are more cost recovery fees than necessary? This is what I'm getting at.