First of all, in the therapeutic access strategy put in place in 2003, significant new funds were provided to the department in the budget of that year to specifically deal with the question of backlog. We have cleared the backlogs, and this is without having done anything on the fee side. In putting a new fee structure together, one of the things that we will do, and we are in fact required to do by the User Fees Act, is to develop a set of service standards that are commensurate with the level of fees that we'd be looking for. There would be consultations with the industry, and indeed with Parliament, on any proposal to increase fees, and then on what those service standards would be.
On February 12th, 2007. See this statement in context.