I think Health Canada is pretty good. They too have problems with evaluative capacity, just like business. For example, the MRI guidelines in Canada have not been updated since the mid-1980s. However, we have lots of these very high field magnets in Canada now because Health Canada essentially defers to the FDA on this. Even though on paper in Canada you should not have an MRI device that is higher than two tesla—and we have at least 63 Tesla machines in the country—Health Canada is prudent enough to say that since another agency has approved this, they agree with that and they will import them and use them. I don't see how Canada is the big barrier in all of this.
On October 30th, 2012. See this statement in context.