Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Fletcher has more experience than I do, certainly with the federal government, but I realize that sometimes government does move very slowly. I have to say I'm very frustrated about this one, because not only are 30,000 people dying of heart attacks, but we're also now managing to make sure that women are equal in number. So we've gained equality in that way, not that this was the equality goal. All of the children we're talking about at this table are the potential 30,000, and by the time these regulations get through, they may be old enough to have one of those heart attacks.
The other thing I know about government is that it can also move with the speed of lightning, should it wish to. I'm sure we can find lots of examples of where that happens. Yes, sometimes things do take quite a while and nobody wants to do something carelessly, but I also know that government can move very quickly if government wants to move quickly. So 30,000 heart attacks a year, and the number of children we're talking about with potential type 2 diabetes and with a whole variety of other illnesses—candidates for being on your statistics—I would hope would cause us to move very quickly.
Because I wasn't privileged to be around when this began, and I realize that wasn't the consensus, I'd be very curious to ask whether the elimination of trans fats was put on the table for discussion.