Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Ms. Mithani and Mr. Hills, for coming today.
I have some concerns. I'm not exactly convinced that Health Canada necessarily understands the importance of the competitiveness issue and the price disparity between the United States and Canada for drugs such as IVOMEC. It's not an uncommon story to hear of producers who fly down to the United States, buy a truck, fill it up with their quarterly use of IVOMEC, bring it back up, pay the GST and everything else on it, and actually save the price of the truck in their drug costs alone. So this is a very important issue, and I'm a little concerned.
It doesn't seem that you're a big fan of personal use importation. I'd like you to walk me through it a little bit. There is an application form the producer would have to fill out for Health Canada before going down to pick up this drug. Is that correct?
I've seen these application forms. They're not exactly small forms. They're very detailed and very onerous for the producers, which I have a problem with, as well. Nonetheless, how would you have these drugs coming from other countries like China or somewhere else that we don't want coming into Canada? Do they not have to get approval from Health Canada first?