Thank you very much. I can assure you that before I came here I dealt with CFIA. Sometimes I had some difficulties with CFIA, being a potato producer and calling them in. Yes, we hear there are difficulties, probably with inspections, and having inspectors available, and getting the certificate if you're wishing to ship, particularly in western Canada, some products across the border.
In general, from what I understand, there are basically enough inspectors. The problem is.... I expect that this committee will probably be interviewing some farmers and farm groups. The interesting thing is whether they wish to have CFIA officials available around the clock. If they do, that costs more money. Is that the direction they wish to go in?
There are things like that we're going to have to deal with, but we have a CFIA official here, if you wish to elaborate more on that.
Basically we had meetings, mostly in eastern Canada, in the last few weeks. CFIA is generally well accepted, but in some areas, having this 24-hour availability for CFIA people is wanted. It's something that I think could be looked at by the committee.