Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here.
I come from a processing vegetable, grain and oilseeds background. I first attended industry conferences, I believe, in 1988, and we talked about Canada free trade. By 1990, at industry conferences, we started hearing about the criticality of this word “harmonization”. Here we are many years later, and we're still talking about the goal of harmonization.
I'll begin with Food and Beverage Canada. The presentation you gave was very well done. In your document, you put forward the idea of calling for a national summit, a regulatory summit. Is the problem that we don't know the “what”, or is the problem that, for some reason, for the last 30 years, we haven't figured out the criticality of doing so? Just for the record, I was very young in 1988, but I've heard of this over and over again. Why is this so difficult?