I'd like to thank you folks for coming. There's no question that food safety is a huge issue.
To the Canadian Horticultural Council, you went through a long list of areas where you're certainly, I think, at the farm gate level, doing everything that can be done in terms of food safety--the HACCP system, CFIA providing inspections, etc. In my province, the biggest cost for a potato producer now is in fact the food inspections.
I have two questions. One, does the Government of Canada have responsibility over food safety in this country? Two, as compared with other countries, the farmers in Canada seem to be paying for the food inspection system to a great extent. It's not so in other countries. Is that not therefore driving some of our producers basically out of business, and we'll have to depend on imported product?