Thank you.
I want to comment again on Mr. Jeffery's documentation. He indicated a while ago how Canada's sodium reduction strategy really needs to be implemented. When we were at committee on sodium, the industry was saying that the taste of Canadians is different from the taste of those in the United States, and that's why they were reducing the sodium intake slowly over time. I certainly would be interested in hearing some of your views on that. We know the sodium in certain products in the United States is much lower than what it is here.
There was some mention a while ago about the voluntary sign-on in the U.K. I'm wondering if there was an incentive attached to that when it was implemented. Then I go back to Mr. Jeffery's document that speaks about the school nutrition programs, and I know those have been dear to our hearts with the NDP, because Olivia Chow was one who started this in the city of Toronto when she was on council there. She spoke to you at a recent conference in Ottawa on that.
But when I look at the document on page 10, it says “Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed strict binding new nutrition standards for foods to qualify for the more than $14 billion in federal government subsidies for school foods.” I'm just wondering if you could elaborate on that as well.
I'm going to leave you with three questions. I think that's going to probably do my time.
I think it's important to talk about the school programs, and it's important to talk about whether there are incentives and how these incentives promote the fact that we have companies that will probably buy in as well.