In terms of the scientists, first of all, a lot of our research is with Ag Canada scientists—primarily, they're the leads—in collaboration with other scientists, whether through CFIA or the Public Health Agency, so my greatest familiarity is with those scientists. We have some phenomenal scientists across this country, some world-renowned scientists. I think there are two big things in terms of engaging them.
First of all, you want to ensure that they are good communicators and that they're comfortable. This is an area in which some researchers aren't, but we need to enable them and ensure that they have the skills to do this, because they are viewed as being independent, and that's fundamentally important.
Second, when it comes to regulation, industry does advocate for certain things, and we recognize the importance of having scientists who are independent from us when going to look at regulation for government. I think that's important.
In terms of resourcing, I think, again, it's important to ensure that during the approval processes, which are somewhat separate from the science going on, there's acceptance of the scientific processes under way. There also has to be acceptance of the science, whether it's generated in Canada or in other areas, and recognition that this work is highly credible, especially since in many cases it has been peer-reviewed, and that it needs to be accepted.
In terms of the actual resourcing, we have seen backlogs in the past, some of which, I think, have happened because there's not necessarily an outcome-based approach to these types of things, and that means we're overwhelmed with back-and-forth requests and those types of things.