Thank you to our witnesses for appearing.
I'm trying to get a handle on this. There seems to be a consensus that there's value to the Canadian General Standards Board. In fact, one of the arguments presented to us this morning is that there's value to it but it's inconsistently applied. I think, Michel, that would be somewhat your point of view on this.
If it is to be valued and it is to be adopted as a best practice, could I get your respective comments on whether this should be a voluntary process? If I understand this correctly, the creation of a standard is a product of a regulation at some point but the actual standard itself is not a regulation, normally. Would it be a positive for the furtherance of establishment and adherence to standards, to prescribe in regulation the actual standard prescribed by the Canadian General Standards Boards in each of the activities?
Mr. Jenkins, I'll start with you because of course DFO is a big user of regulation to manage its affairs.
We'll just go down the line if we could.