Certainly. Thank you, Minister.
The Safe Food for Canadians Act is an incredibly important advancement from a food safety perspective in Canada. What that has done is provide the agency with modern authorities to address issues in terms of the safety of food.
For example, as the minister was noting, it is providing specific authority in the area of food traceability, allowing us to strengthen our ability to identify and track foods through the system and respond quickly when issues arise. The Safe Food for Canadians Act presents an opportunity to move to an outcome-based approach to how we regulate, which will enhance the responsiveness of the regulatory system.
One of the challenges, of course, that a prescriptive regulatory framework presents is that it's bound in time with the science you have when you write that prescriptive set of rules. By shifting to an outcomes focus in terms of regulations, it means that we can be quickly responsive to emerging science. The Safe Food for Canadians Act now gives us that opportunity.
In seizing that opportunity, what the agency is very much seized with at present is the elaboration of the regulatory framework that will allow the Safe Food for Canadians Act to come into force. We will be working aggressively in the coming months, in consultation with the stakeholders, to elaborate that regulatory framework and to move forward in bringing the Safe Food for Canadians Act into force. We're backstopping that with the work we've been doing and the investment the government has made in an improved food inspection system.
The combination of those two things, we believe, will position us extremely well to have a modern, efficient, and effective food safety system that advances what is already recognized to be among the best food safety systems in the world.
Thank you.