Indeed, the MAS was an innovation, I'm not sure if it was even as many as 10 years ago, to try to bridge across the different segments of the federal government. I think at one time it was felt that maybe we could have a single department of agrifood, which would bring in the responsibilities of health, CFIA, and agriculture, but that isn't the way it went.
I think they've done, in my experience, a considerable job, but as we have increased the number of countries that we export to—and I think this also maybe addresses Madame Brosseau's question—there don't seem to be the economies of scale in dealing with a lot of these issues, the technical issues. You'd think that maybe, if we doubled the number of countries we export to or doubled the number of exports, we would gain the economies of effort.
Each country has its own issues, and the market access secretariat has to deal with China today and India tomorrow, etc. When we see more progress in this area of harmonization, if we have more countries subscribing to a codex MRL, for example, maximum residue level, then we don't have to deal with each country's issues; we can deal with them through a more collective process.