Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We must be compliant with three essential pieces of legislation or standards—the Human Pathogens and Toxins Act, biosecurity standards, as well as the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act—in our dealings with foreign laboratories.
It's important to note that there's no unified global accreditation body for high containment laboratories. Therefore, we have to operate in a context where we must be compliant with our own legislative standards. Similarly, other countries have their own legislative standards that when we are interacting with them we will operate within provided that they do not conflict with ours. It is under that framework that we engage in our collaborative endeavours with other laboratories.