Thank you, Chair.
My question is to the Health Food Association. Thank you for your presentation.
I just want to be clear about one part of your presentation. You said that Health Canada snuck these changes in Bill C-47 and Bill C-69. Actually, when officials from Health Canada appear at Parliament, they sit exactly where you're sitting right now. It would be the health minister advising the finance minister to put these changes into this piece of legislation. Health Canada wouldn't be able to table any legislation at all. It's MPs and ministers and the government that tables these things.
I want to talk a little bit about the health minister's defence of using Bill C-47 and now Bill C-69 and claiming that Health Canada needs powers to stop, I think, a particular example of a product that they're talking about. I want to go through the current set of powers that Health Canada has.
Does Health Canada currently have the power to issue a stop sale on any natural health product in Canada?