But the issue here on these sound science conditions is that some Mexican labourer's health is at risk because they're allowed to apply a product—a pesticide, a herbicide, or whatever—on a crop. Our producers are not allowed to do that in this country because of concern for the health of the people applying the product, yet that Mexican product ends up on our shelves.
Now, is there a way of dealing with that one? I understand your concerns within Canada, but for our producers on the ground, producing.... It may be the cost of human lives in Mexico in terms of their labour, or wherever else, but our producers are being driven out of business because although that product doesn't have residue in it, it's not allowed for use in Canada for reasons of the health of the workers. Yet the product still ends up on our shelves and drives our guys out of business.
Is there a way that Health Canada can deal with that issue?
In your veterinary and drug strategy plan—it relates mainly to Canada and the United States—it says that you would prepare by April 30, 1999, and that was nine years ago, a side-by-side comparison of veterinary drugs approved for use in both countries. I think that was to try to ensure that both countries have the ability to access the same drugs. Has that been done? Is it available to us, and does it include the factors I just talked about, where they have different worker restrictions from ours? It's a huge problem. It's the same thing in China—you can kill a worker, but don't allow residue to come in.