Thank you, Mr. Richards.
I would say the biggest issue flagged by our members is re-evaluation of existing products—existing pesticides—by PMRA. It's a very large and onerous job. The number of re-evals coming through are increasing and will be increasing over the next 10 years. There have been a number of decisions that are going to place Canada out of alignment with our key global competitors. That is a huge concern and it's going to make farmers less competitive if this continues on. It makes Canada a less attractive place to invest.
This is why we're pushing hard to have that competitiveness lens that was discussed in the budget actually placed because regulators need to have a mandate that includes competitiveness. Absent that, they're going to do a very strict interpretation of the act, and they have. I'm here to beseech the political leadership to apply that competitiveness lens to a regulatory body like Health Canada's pest management regulatory agency.
I share some common membership with Shannon's organization. I'm sure she'll have some additional thoughts.