In my initial answer to your colleague, obviously, I went over part of the ground, in terms of what our WTO obligations are. We have to have a system in place here that we can defend if we're going to impose those requirements on others. So we need to have a first look at our domestic system. We do not have a mandatory requirement for preventative controls, whether those are HACCP-based, or HACCP, or some other variant. Moving onto that plateau where we can make that claim is something we need to have a very serious discussion about, or maybe we won't be able to demand that of the products that are coming into the country. We've seen the Americans and the Europeans and others move in that direction. We need to have that discussion.
We need to have the discussion as to what our expectations are around what kind of inspection or audit should be behind those claims that they have preventative controls in place. Is it going to be a demand that they be government inspected, when we don't have government inspection of all of our facilities here in Canada? We have the power to do that, but we don't quite practically have that power, and don't exercise it on a regular basis in every food business in Canada. So we have to have a look at those kinds of things and ask ourselves, as we've developed our on-farm programs and some of these other industry-based programs, are we expecting similar programs to those to be in place in the supply chains that are providing us with imports? And if so, how do we work that out and recognize those?
So that's a couple of areas we need to have a close look at, as we then move out with new initiatives in terms of import controls.