Thank you for the question.
You raise the issue of CFIA activities, the CFIA mandate, and you raise the issue of food safety. You are quite right, the CFIA has a primary mandate for food safety. We also have a mandate for animal welfare and plant health, and it is in this connection that the Auditor General has provided us with the audit on our plant health program.
The country we import most from, clearly, is the United States, in terms of food and food issues. We have adopted increasingly an approach in the plant health area to try to mitigate risk before it comes into the country. We have been trying to work with other countries to stop things from coming in before they become established. The challenge for the plant health program is invasive species coming in. Once they get a toe-hold in Canada it can be very difficult to mitigate. So we have increasingly been focusing on outside the border to try to stop invasive plant pests from coming into Canada at all.