Don't take my word for it. Ask the Auditor General. The Auditor General, in reviewing the chemicals management plan, said that one of the key issues on the accountability and for the confidence of Canadians was how long the process takes.
Now, I know what some of those hurdles are: the cabinet directive on streamlining regulation, international trade obligations and notifying our partners about what instruments we're going to put in place. Also, elections slow down risk assessments as the machinery of government stops. In the timeline you're talking about—2006, 2008, 2011—there were more elections in Canada than there were in Italy.
There are extraneous variables—