Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, ladies. Thank you very much for being here. It's my first time as a committee member having you here for the main estimates, and I certainly appreciate the thoroughness of the presentation.
I want to go back to the Regulatory Cooperation Council. You have indicated that there is a $2.1 million funding increase in the operations. What specifically is that for? The reason I ask is that I have met with at least a dozen businesses in my riding that would love to see this process happening a lot faster. They are bringing products in from the United States. Canada is a small market, so when they are making a product for 300 million people in the United States and then they have to completely change everything to sell it to 34 million people in Canada, it's not sustainable. You gave a couple of examples, Michelle, of the lipstick. We know this is a problem. Is the increase in funding to speed this up? Is that our goal in trying to do this, or is it not a factor of money? Is it just a factor of these various sectors having more meetings, having better coordination, and, sector by sector, working better so that we can get harmonized standards across the border?