Yes. Thank you for the question.
I mentioned previously that from the industry perspective there's a reputational risk from any weakening of the authorities around natural health products, but from a consumer perspective I think there are other really important considerations.
One of them.... Let's take the example of the nicotine order that we were discussing and that Mr. Thériault brought up earlier. In the absence of Vanessa's Law authorities, as he pointed out, it would be impossible to deal with the current challenge around a specific product that was introduced by a tobacco company without also interfering with the availability of legitimate smoking cessation therapies. What Vanessa's Law does, as it continues to be modernized, is give us new tools to deal with that without disrupting consumer access.
The other one is something that we're working on right now. I've mentioned our challenges around the labelling file. This is a regulation that was passed just in 2022. We are in a position where industry is simply not going to be able to comply by the current compliance deadlines for that. The ability of the minister to issue exemption orders under the most recent changes under Bill C-69 will give us a mechanism to potentially deal with that.
I wouldn't say that we rely on Vanessa's Law for our well-being, by any stretch, but there are benefits. We're talking about modernizing legislation that, until Vanessa's Law came along, had been virtually untouched for 50 years. This is important for regulating in the environment we're in, where change is constant.