Very briefly, Mr. Chair, there has been a little confusion around the medical device single audit process. Canada has a mandatory system for these kinds of audits. The updated process will be mandatory, but the old process was mandatory as well. The government is not imposing something that was not a requirement all along. The new system is one where the audit process is going to mimic those in a number of our trading partners. Larger manufacturers of medical devices have said that they value this because, once they get an approval in Canada, that approval will be valid in a number of other jurisdictions. We're taking a process that used to be Canada-specific, and are now making it such that if you get an approval, you can use it in other jurisdictions. For certain firms it results in a reduction in red tape.
We have heard concerns from SMEs and others that the new process is more complex. Health Canada is very sympathetic to those concerns. We are quite keen on addressing them. The intention here is to introduce a program that will be of value, and so we're in active conversation with SMEs and others to see how we might make adjustments.