What I was referring to is that Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada provided $17.4 million to Health Canada specifically for food regulatory reform, and that worked very well. As I mentioned earlier, we saw a lot of improvements with food additives.
So the approval process for this was sped up. That was extremely important. Why is it important? It is because you cannot encourage innovation in Canada if it may take up to 10 years to get your product approved.
I'm not talking about compromising safety, because safety is a priority not only of the government but also of companies, of course. To encourage innovation by food manufacturers, you want to be able to say that once you actually produce some innovative product, it will take x amount of time to get it on store shelves.
The problem is these delays. In Growing Forward 2 there were no funds provided to Health Canada to modernize the food regulations.
It is a bit odd that Agriculture Canada would be providing money to another department, but that's just the way our industry is governed. Our home is in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and Health Canada holds our regulations.