I can comment, Chair.
I think we've had a lot of discussion over the past number of weeks about the ability for the agency to react quickly and in a fulsome manner to food safety incidences when they arise, and not to put in place things that will slow down their reaction time. The agency's reaction to a particular incident has to be prudent, and there are remedies if a company feels it wasn't prudent.
Here, I think, if you're asking for “the person to whom or government to which the information may be disclosed” to agree in writing to maintain the confidentiality of the information, there's an immediate discussion over what is confidential. You've just presented me with all this information. Let's stop, and let's come to a common agreement on what is confidential. What if there's disagreement on what is confidential?
Now you can see sort of the administrative burden that's placed, and the confidentiality burden that's placed, on the parties trying to get information out to the public, or out to other levels of government, regarding a food safety incident. Now there'll be a lot of time lost just agreeing to what is confidential in this information and what is not.
I think it's clear that this would impede the ability of the agency or of the minister to act quickly in order to divulge information related to food safety incidences as they arise. That would be my concern.