You also said that regulatory work to create predictable, science-based rules and regulations is increasingly important for the Canadian agri-food sector to gain access to foreign markets, and likewise they're seeking access to our market.
Going back to the beginning, keeping in mind those two statements, you said that in free trade agreements, Canada has two main objectives. We want to protect the ability to take the measures necessary to keep Canadians safe, and we want to encourage the adoption of science-based and risk-based sanitary and phytosanitary measures.
Keeping all of those in context, it sometimes seems the CFIA has a difficult balancing act between corporate bodies. In many cases the existence of a national border may seem like an inconvenience, because it has operations all around the world. You have corporate interests that seek to move product to maximize profit, but then you have the populations of each country, which may have differing interests and concerns.
Looking at your mandate and the competing interests between possibly the corporate world and what the consumer world wants, how do you achieve that balance? Ultimately, what is it that guides you in trying to find that balance between what may be competing interests?