Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Over the past ten months a new entrepreneur has been trying to get a label approved. He had the label approved in the United States within a month and he used as a model some of the major brands existing in Canada. When he essentially used their grammar, their French, his own ideas of course, and his own design, the turnaround time was about 40 days per issue. Nothing could be done electronically, nothing could be done over the telephone, everything had to be done by snail mail and at enormous cost.
Now that we've had read into the record that the Kraft labels and some of these other major brands are using poor French and incorrect English and are not to standard, the same way this small new entrepreneur's labels are, will the CFIA pull those Kraft jams off the shelves until the labels are grammatically correct?
Second, what is the problem with getting a harmonized label that can be used both in the United States and in Canada? We had the label presented to us here in committee, and among the members it was a very difficult process to find out what the differences would be, and yet a harmonized label is not acceptable to the CFIA.
I don't know if the third question has to do with the problems in turnaround time he's experiencing, but one of the witnesses who came here mentioned he was quite concerned about the decrease in financial resources for the CFIA in the estimates for 2008-09. Will that decrease in financial resources be a problem for enforcement?