My time with CFIA dates to the creation of the agency in 1997, in various roles, as you have indicated.
As CFIA, we have undertaken both self-initiated and.... Again, as we've tried to make very clear to this committee and to Canadians in all of our communications, we live in a world where risk is ever-changing, whether it relates to food safety and the food supply or whether it relates to animal health and animal disease movements internationally and in Canada, and certainly we've seen the devastation in our forestry sector and in our plant sector as well because of invasive species and climate change.
So I think it is absolutely mandatory--and it is the only responsible way to effectively manage risk to public health, animal health, and plant health--to undertake these reviews on an ongoing basis. Over the course of my time at CFIA, as I say, we have undertaken these reviews as part of a commitment to continuous improvement to ensure that we are using the best available science and the best available practices to ensure that we are providing Canadians the best level of support we possibly can.