Thanks.
Let me just say thank you again for being here.
I'd like to talk a little bit about food safety. As you know, food safety is very important. As I go through the mains, I see that there are some reductions in food safety. A natural knee-jerk reaction is that cuts to food safety are very bad. I think that there are other explanations. For example, there's a line item called “Internal Services”. I'm seeing a reduction of close to $14 million. It's $13,905,000. I'm assuming that internal services would capture things like hospitality, perhaps photocopying, and travel, which are things that support the work of CFIA in a more general sense but aren't the core work of CFIA.
I'm wondering if you can comment on those types of savings. If these are administrative savings, I'd say that those are good savings. You're reducing the overhead in the food safety system, and that's a good thing. That reduction or those savings should not be misunderstood.
I'm wondering if you could comment on that.