Right now with the regulations, according to Health Canada, it would take at current levels and current pace 20 years to modernize their existing regulations, by which time they will already be out of date.
The issue here is that when you have industry trying to introduce new ingredients, new products, and new manufacturing processes, these things take so long to get approval in Canada. I hear this often from our member companies. If you're a manufacturer here in Canada, you may have this great new product or new innovation, or you may want to introduce some technology, but it takes years for Health Canada to get back to you to say whether or not it can be approved.