Thank you kindly, Mr. Chair.
I will begin with the pharmaceutical representative.
I could go through all of your recommendations, but the fourth one, in particular, caught my attention. It calls on the Government of Canada to "amend Health Canada's mission, vision, core values and objectives to incorporate the promotion and acceptance of innovation into its culture, mandate, processes and procedures."
Health Canada did that in other areas. For instance, the Pest Management Regulatory Agency more or less did it by including that new mission in its public protection mandate.
And in that connection, the environment commissioner indicated that "the agency's mandate [was] dual and often incompatible", its mandate being to serve the industry and protect Canadians' health. Following your recommendation would lead to a similar situation.
Could we run into problems around a dual mandate if we were to amend Health Canada's mandate, as you recommend?