The recognition that there is a lot of interplay between the work of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency here and our ability to access markets overseas has led, in recent years, to the creation of a dedicated market access secretariat. In fact, you have the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and market access staff from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada working together, with a single management structure, to make sure that focus and that whole-of-government approach are in place. Global Affairs Canada works together, as part of that federal market access secretariat, to make sure that you have everybody pushing in the same direction and trying to open those markets for Canada.
On February 19th, 2019. See this statement in context.