Mr. Chair, if I could I'll just briefly speak to that.
In my day job, in my real paid job, I'm the director of health policy for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. As you know, we co-chaired the transfat task force, and I just wanted to respond to one thing.
The transfat task force took all these considerations into account in coming up with these recommendations, which is why we suggested the two-plus-two approach. It was precisely to facilitate our canola industry in the country. The two-plus-two approach is that we take two years to develop the regulations and then up to two years for those regulations to come into effect.
What we've been hearing from the seed growers is that they need a regulatory signal so they can plant enough crops in the ground to ensure that by an x period of time, there will be sufficient supply to meet demand for our canola crop. These issues are addressed in the report of the task force that went to the minister, and I would urge the committee to take a good look at that.
The other problem we have is that if we don't come up with a regulated response, what we'll end up with is that those foods for which it's hardest to get the transfats out won't change, and second, we will start to see a differentiation between cheaper foods that are full of transfat and more expensive foods that are transfat-free, which is only going to disadvantage low-income people even further. We're already seeing that with respect to margarine.