I'm Jay Holmes from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. I am the executive director of business enablement and regulatory services. Thank you for the question.
The amendments proposed in Bill C-30 respond to the recent parliamentary report and to stakeholder requests to broaden or to clarify the CFIA's mandate. In addition to reflecting in our decisions animal health, plant health and food safety, CFIA will also consider situations in which food security may be affected regionally or across the country and consider or formalize its consideration of economic factors when it's making decisions.
This will allow the CFIA to broaden out those considerations or formalize its consideration of those factors as it is making those decisions that keep, as a bedrock or as a foundation, the primacy of animal health, plant health and human safety.