I went for a visit at the CFIA last year, and I met with many people over there. There are over 5,000 people who work at the CFIA right now. There's a tremendous amount of resources being invested in the CFIA currently. I believe there are already some resources there that we can take to create this agency.
The problem I see is that the CFIA is just not designed to deal with the public. I don't mean from a scientific standpoint. We're dealing with managing perceptions and fear, and this is the key component of what we're talking about here. It has nothing to do with science. The science-based approach is in the CFIA's mission statement right now, so they have it down pat, but what we need to do is create some sort of an agency that can actually deal with the perceptions and fears of the public. There are a lot of irrational decisions being made right now. We're losing control.
We went out and measured perception in 2006 when the spinach recall came out, when there was the outbreak of E. coli. We asked questions to about 1,000 respondents, and we got some answers. In 2006 roughly about 90% of the population were still concerned about the safety of spinach. Now moving forward to--