Thank you very much, Madam Chair. We can just leave everybody here.
My question is for the PMRA. Ms. Laforce, the approval times of PMRA have doubled. They have become worse under the transformation agenda. The AAFC puts that number at about a $50-billion cost to Canadian agriculture. Canada is 32nd out of 38 OECD countries when it comes to agricultural regulatory burden. We are number 21 when it comes to active ingredient registration. Many companies do not want to come to Canada as a result of these numbers. It takes too long to access this market.
Is there anything within Bill C-30 that sets targets for PMRA, in terms of approving its decision-making process to improve those numbers, to come up from 32nd out of 38 in the OECD and to come up from number 21 in terms of active ingredient registrations in Canada? Are there any specific targets in Bill C-30 that hold PMRA accountable for the decisions it is making?
