You do indicate that the complexity and growing demands on the regulatory arm of Health Canada indicate a need for greater funding, not less. In spite of the propensity of many managers to want to have greater spending, because there are always additional needs they would like to fulfill, it does seem that our funding decisions have moved us in the opposite direction to the needs of Canadians.
While I appreciate that the programs would want to focus on the areas of greatest risk, surely there are other regulated areas where there is risk, although perhaps not the greatest risk. I wonder how we can be assured that the risks are not of a nature that Canadians should be concerned about.