Thank you.
We make clear in all of our reports that we do select products that are at higher risk of fraud, either because they're more desirable, harder to find, or we know there are higher instances of fraud there. We make that clear in all of our studies and explain the methodology that we select those species specifically for that.
If we're looking for a problem, we want to look where we know that problem is. No amount of fraud is acceptable in Canadian supply chains, so we want to see if those high-risk species are being protected from that in Canada. We have found that they're not.
When we say that 47% of the samples we tested were fraudulent, we mean is just that. It was those samples. It's not 40% of seafood in Canada. That's not what we're suggesting. Our numbers are consistent with what has been found elsewhere in Canada by other bodies—including CFIA a few years ago with an earlier study—and around the world.
As I mentioned in my presentation, an analysis of 44 studies last year by The Guardian found that around 40% of samples tested were mislabelled as well.