The basis of the selection of the five jurisdictions right now is simply regulators that Health Canada, Agriculture Canada and the CFIA work with closely on a routine basis. They all sit at the VICH table, which is the international collaboration harmonization initiative. They meet regularly. They are very aware of what each other's approval processes look like, and they're comfortable that the safeguards that are in place in those other jurisdictions will not put Canadian food safety and Canadian animal health at risk.
There are, however, examples where, if we're talking about aquaculture drugs, which we have a dire necessity for in this country, the primary countries that have a decent list of aquaculture drugs would be Chile and Norway. Neither one of those currently falls into anything like that.
The argument to be made for Norway is that their regulatory system is closely aligned with that of the European Union. They're not part of the EU, but they have a very similar structure. I think what we've been trying to advocate is looking at expanding that list of trusted jurisdictions on the basis of similarity of levels of control and requirements, particularly for countries like Norway that are very closely aligned already with another jurisdiction that we do consider to be trusted.
