Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to turn to the in-commerce list. I have some questions on the 9,000 substances currently regulated under the Food and Drugs Act and the options on what to do with that.
This is perhaps more of a legal question, and I'm certainly not a lawyer. But is there an obligation created under section 73 to categorize these substances as either existing or new? In other words, are those the only two options we're dealing with? Is the government obliged to take that course of action or, for example, can they continue to exist being regulated under the Food and Drugs Act?
I'm trying to figure out what the full options are. I guess the specific question is this, and maybe it's a legal question. Is an obligation created to treat them as either existing or new and, from there, the government then has a certain defined course of action?