Agriculture committee  It has been registered in Canada, and the manufacturer now intends to sell it in Canada.

Agriculture committee  It is through FNA, so FNA would be the distributor, I guess.

Agriculture committee  Presumably, because FNA had to develop something for the OUI.

Agriculture committee  Whenever a government department or part of a department receives new dollars, we've always had to put in an argument of this is why we need the new dollars and this is what they're going to be used for, and then it is the government that decides the financial amount that we get.

Agriculture committee  We can. I don't have the specific information here, but we can give you figures, year-by-year, indicating the amount that's going to this activity.

Agriculture committee  This is why we do always look at numbers in trend analysis, because, as I said, we have a ceiling set, for example, for cost recovery. Part of that was based on trend analysis done quite some time ago, and we learned that our number of submissions in the last two years has increa

Agriculture committee  All of that is the kind of information we'll need to bring forward when we propose—if we propose—changes to our cost recovery regime. There are different costs to different parties, and we have to look at that. I think Mr. Easter raised this too, in terms of the impact on the gro

Agriculture committee  No, no. Being partnered with them in these initiatives is very important to us. The dollars that I mentioned in the increasing competitiveness to the agriculture sector in Canada are very important to help us do work on things that are of benefit to the agriculture sector. I gue

Agriculture committee  I don't know if I have a one-pager here. We can give you that kind of breakdown. On the agriculture policy framework, some of the dollars we were receiving under that were supposed to sunset at the end of this fiscal year, so we weren't going to receive them next year. They're

Agriculture committee  Yes, we're an agency only in name. We have no special authorities. We're just a branch of Health Canada. I report to the deputy, as do assistant deputy ministers. We have no special authorities. We've actually raised the question, for example, to our advisory council about changi

Agriculture committee  I have two points in response. Under NAFTA, we've been encouraging our grower groups to identify priorities to deal with border irritants. Our growers are working on that kind of thing. What are the pesticides that are causing the most consternation for them at the border? How

Agriculture committee  Under our new act, the definition of value is broader than in the old act. It has always been that within the realm of pesticide regulation in Canada we were looking at human health effects, environmental risks, and what was previously called “efficacy”, now called “value”. Val

Agriculture committee  Seven more are under review right now. We're hoping that the trend continues in an upward way into the future.

Agriculture committee  There are no dollars, to my knowledge, that flow to the Department of Agriculture and then to PMRA. What has happened has been that when Agriculture Canada has gone to the government for a new initiative, at times funds to PMRA have been part of that initiative. Recognizing that

Agriculture committee  I don't think we can conclude that there are more cost recovery fees than necessary. The situation now across the federal government is that if we want to make changes to our cost recovery fees, under the user fee act we would have to bring something to Parliament and you'd see i