Thank you, Ms. Valdez.
Thank you, Ms. Hart, for that very robust description of all the work you guys do.
Colleagues, that brings us to the end. I do want to take one quick opportunity to ask a question with CFIA and PMRA here.
Certainly when I deal with my agricultural producers at home in Nova Scotia, one of the things they talk about often is competitiveness. I don't know if there's an actual provision within your legislative statute that talks about that, but I think about things like Bill S-6, which is before the House right now and which, I believe, allows and opens the door for both of your agencies to start considering foreign recognition.
Can you tell this committee what is being done through CFIA, whether on crop protection products or certain seeds, when there are demonstrably strong scientific processes from other jurisdictions, to create expedited pathways in Canada?
Mr. Bissonnette, you talked, for example, about how you really have to wait until someone actually comes to apply to Canada, but the evidence that I think many of our colleagues would have at this committee is that many major manufacturers would start in the United States or they'd start in Europe—they'd start in larger markets—before they would even get to Canada, and then we would still have a couple-year process by the time it landed in our lap.
How do we close that gap for competitiveness? Are there ways in which we can use the existing science of other agencies that we trust to expedite our own processes? What work are you guys doing in that domain?
I'll start with CFIA and then go to PMRA.