Thank you for your question, sir.
It's important to know that we aren't buying caviar. We will be buying information of prime necessity from our departments in order to carry out our mandate, which is to ensure that food products are well tested and that the tests meet approved international standards.
In overall terms, we are going to review this company because it has an innovative way of manufacturing the desired product. Then we're going to test it with the federal government to ensure the process meets all international food products standards.
It's true that this is a small New Brunswick company, but what is interesting is that it is operated in the context of the regulations made under what is called
CITES, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
Those regulations prescribe all the conditions for keeping and preserving various fish specimens.
In this situation, it is the information this company produces that we're buying.