I take it as pretty strong--the fact that you didn't discover it, that they're offering it up. I mean, come on, we spend a lot of time here trying to find things out, but when somebody is offering up from within government that they don't have enough money to do something, or they're not doing something adequately, boy oh boy, it has to be really bad if they've raised this on their own. Otherwise, like many other things we know about, it would just lie hidden and not be dealt with unless you happen to turn it up. To me this is huge.
I was looking at the responses from the ministry, and at best they say, as always, “Agreed.” Then they go on to say the goal for a lot of the tasks they've set for themselves is that they're going to complete them by March 31, 2008. I've looked through it, and it seems to be the common date for everything. I don't know whether they have some big review going on, but what it tells me is, first, that it's an awfully long time; and second, that during that time there are still going to be products for our children, for our seniors, prescription drugs and other really important public safety matters that will not be adequately reviewed and investigated.
I'd like your thoughts. Is there something I'm missing? Is that a reasonable length of time, in your opinion?