Mr. Chair, on the question about the agencies meeting provincial requirements, they are, as has been mentioned, subject to provincial requirements. We obviously don't audit the provinces, but I would presume there would be some sort of inspection compliance activities carried out by the provinces. The federal government does actually obtain that information; it's then the follow-through afterwards to make sure that things are addressed. They also have the ability to do compliance audits, and the deputy mentioned that they were doing more of those or were beginning to do more of those.
On February 12th, 2009. See this statement in context.