Mr. Chair, if I could address that as well, I would say, very simply, if we're looking for regulatory change.... We live in a world with regulation or a regulatory structure that is 50 years old, so if there's one thing we need, it's a modern regulatory structure that allows the department to do a couple of things. One is to structure its regulations, whether they're for NHPs, or drugs, or cosmetics, or food, what have you, in a way that assesses risk and applies the appropriate level of caution, concern, or oversight to the appropriate level of risk. Their hands are tied today. They're limited in what they can do, because Parliament hasn't empowered them with modern enabling legislation.
The second thing I would suggest is that as the science-based regulators in a world with changing product lines, changing knowledge of risk, they need the ability to adjust those regulations from time to time--with the oversight of cabinet, at the political level--to be able to respond in a timely way to emerging product lines, emerging risk, emerging levels of knowledge. Currently, we all suffer from a regulatory regime that is 50 years out of date because the Parliament of Canada has not dealt with that issue. So if you want a regulatory regime that works, it needs to be modernized to meet the modern world.