On the pre-market label, it's a really deficient.... In the last cost-recovery sessions, which would have been in the early nineties, the meat industry wanted the pre-market review program, which was tied to import controls. In this country, every time you want to market a product that contains meat, you send the label to the CFIA, and they review that label to make sure it doesn't have allergens, that it meets the Canadian regulations, that it has the right weight, that it comes from a registered plant--all of those kinds of safeguards--and then they allow it. So that's for both domestic and imported products.
The agency allowed the service to deteriorate somewhat, so there was a delay for companies. Service turnaround time was up to eight weeks, and now it's back to two and a half weeks. That's great for the agency.
Unfortunately, the agency, in its strategic review, has to get rid of this import control program. This is a really good, cost-effective enforcement program. No other category has it. If you look at some categories, such as baked goods, juices, drinks, and a whole bunch of those categories, the number of mislabelled products is huge. I understand that even the dairy farmers were here talking to Robert de Valk the other day about the problems they're having in the dairy industry and how the labels are out of compliance.