Quite quickly, CFIA plant and animal health needs to get away from human health. It needs to get back in the realm of agriculture. Signing free trade agreements, and this kind of stuff, has no bearing on the Minister of Health, so if the Minister of Agriculture is out doing that, then the work falls to the CFIA. I know there's been some restructuring right now going on within that, but at the same time there's been an extraordinary amount of cutting on the animal-plant side of things when there have been budget cuts in the past.
For example, if the CFIA got a 40% budget cut overall, then the meat inspectors maybe saw 5% of that, and the people putting together the trade agreements and negotiating the certificates, who are generally veterinarians—and the CVO might be part of that too—that whole group has been whittled down to nothing. It's at the point where we are becoming one of the countries we used to make fun of for not getting back to people: “Don't worry about Peru. You might hear from them in another six months.” That's where Canada is at right now. It pains me to say it, but we're at the point where we cannot respond to simple trade issues that happen and arise over these negotiated trade health agreements for a live product like this. Then what happens is that it gets addressed when they finally close the market. So that other country may close the market, and then we'll be sitting there and we have to scramble and light fires and try to get it reopened, instead of answering their questions in a timely manner when they come in.
It comes right down to resources. There's just not enough.