Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Buckley, for your testimony.
Of course, this committee is looking at how we balance the priorities of making sure that Canadians have access to a product and also that the product is safe for them to use.
This is an important issue for my community. We have a company, an incredible company, in Windsor—Tecumseh called Jamieson. I've had the honour and the pleasure of meeting Jamieson folks who work there probably about four or five times just in the last two years. It's a company that has a one-hundred-year-old history. It has a thousand people working there. It's incredible. It's the largest natural health product company in Canada, and it's the fastest growing. It exports to 50 countries around the world. This is something that's, again, a pride of Windsor-Essex, and again, its products are exported around the world to 50 countries. In speaking with Jamieson, one of the things that I heard is that Health Canada is actually seen as the gold standard for regulation around the world. This actually provides companies like Jamieson with an advantage against international competition because people trust Canadian-made products. People trust the products that are created because when it has that Health Canada stamp on it, it means something around the world. Therefore, that product can compete in places like China, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere because there is trust in a strong regulatory system.
I want to ask you to speak to that—about how, in some instances, regulation can actually be seen as a strength and an advantage for Canadian-made products because people trust it.