I've had those discussions with CFIA officials, Larry, as well as with the departmental officials at Agriculture Canada. They are seized by this at the moment. They are looking at every regulation, every cost, and comparing them with those of our major trading partner, the U.S., and seeing what the USDA does and doesn't charge for what we do. They will have some numbers for me on certain portions of that by the end of this month, and then by the end of January, they hope to have the whole package ready for me showing what we charge for that the Americans don't and what the effect or significance is, and so on.
We have to be careful that we do not jeopardize our food safety in any way when we're doing this. Having said that, there are a number of operations and things we do on a cost-recovery basis that the USDA absorbs. The basic taxpayer pays for it out of the global money in the States.
We are cognizant of that. It's one of those things that is not trade challengeable. You can take away taxes and take away regulatory costs, and it's not trade challengeable. We'll look at that. Even if the dollars aren't as significant as we think, because there has been a moratorium on price, on cost-recovery, for the CFIA since the mid-nineties, there's the psychological benefit of saying that we're not doing that anymore. Certainly I'm more than willing to have a look it.
It may be the type of thing we can't say, carte blanche, we're not going to do anymore, but we can certainly implement a holiday, year by year, on some of those regulatory costs, and that's what we're working with right now.