Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In contemplating the difficulty you sometimes see with devices, if you have an MRI in a hospital, for example, to recall it, you don't want to pull it out of the hospital. It would be a great expense, among other things. That's why, in proposed subsection 21.3(2), what's proposed there is a provision for the minister to ask for corrective action to be taken. If there is an issue that they have to correct out in the field—and this is quite usual for devices—it's contemplated within the wording of the order.
The effect would be that if the minister picked up and ordered a corrective action instead of a recall, the assumption is that the medical device would stay where it is and then the company would need to instigate that corrective action. They couldn't sell it or use it while that order is in place, but certainly, the corrective action would be subject to the order. Really, that picks up the point.
I would also point out that, to some extent, proposed paragraph 21.3(1)(b), in sending “to a place”, does contemplate quarantine, to the extent we're saying that instead of pulling it all back from the market and bringing it back to the person who put it into the supply chain, which is the usual recall model, we can actually have product directed to a certain place or stay where it is. The minister could use an order to effect that.