Seriously, I want to go back to trans fats. What Steven Fletcher is suggesting concerning page 23 is nonsense: that there's no correlation between trans fat usage and obesity. First of all, there's enough research to suggest there's a correlation. Secondly, we know there's a direct link between trans fats and coronary heart disease. What more do we need in order to get this government to actually follow the advice of the task force, which was mandatory regulations?
Mary, you and others are suggesting you're following the task force. But you aren't. You've actually been quite deceptive here at this committee in suggesting that you're following the task force when it said there must be mandatory regulations in place by June 2008. What you did, on June 20 or June 21 of last spring, was come out suggesting that you were going to follow the task force, but then you put in place a voluntary approach to give the industry until 2009 to see whether they're going to meet a target. If they don't, then you will act by way of regulation. So we're going to lose a couple of years here, when we note we have the evidence and we know it works, and yet you're sitting here telling us that the voluntary approach is going to work.
Industry was involved in the committee. I don't know who's behind this. Industry wants the mandatory approach. So who got to you? What happened between the tabling of the task force report and June 21, when suddenly the minister was saying that only a voluntary approach will work. What was it? It wasn't industry. Was it the United States? Was it trade barriers?
Something prevented you from doing the right thing, and I think Canadians deserve an answer.