Fisheries committee  One of the things we are planning to do with the money in this first year is to really focus on understanding, first of all, the issues of food fraud, including fish. Fish is the priority for us this year. We are looking internationally and working with our international partners

Fisheries committee  We have, but not on fish.

Fisheries committee  The challenge with criminality is that they're very good at it.

Fisheries committee  Our biggest fine ever was for a country-of-origin issue related to green peppers. They got the biggest fine ever, and they went to criminal court and whatnot. It took years of investigation to prove it was actually fraud.

Fisheries committee  Again, I can only come from the perspective of the food safety side, and I can say that, from their equivalent organizations—the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration—when it comes to food labelling and traceability, we are on par with them. We

Fisheries committee  In terms of labelling requirements for consumer protection and food safety on the food safety side, I would say so. I haven't done a direct comparison, but we both use Codex Alimentarius.

Fisheries committee  As Oceana mentioned, they include other things on their labels that the CFIA hasn't looked at that are related to the—

Fisheries committee  No, it's not within our mandate at this time.

Fisheries committee  Again, that question is a bit beyond my capacity to say. I can say that food fraud and food misrepresentation do have a massive economic impact, not just on fisheries. We recently did a targeted blitz on honey and found that the amount of honey that was being misrepresented from

Fisheries committee  I'm talking more about the need to look at whether the label is the right tool to achieve the outcomes.

Fisheries committee  I am a huge proponent and supporter of robust traceability systems. As I said, we brought our regulations up to the minimum international standard, noting that they apply to the biggest businesses and the smallest moms and pops. We were trying to be very focused on that. Having

Fisheries committee  No. I believe—and I hope I'm correct here—that the DNA testing that we're doing for species verification is a more directed approach than when we're doing our regular review for pathogens and other elements that shouldn't be there. They're unique types of tests done in our scient

Fisheries committee  I'm not aware of any, but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened and that our inspectorate wouldn't have any cases of that.

Fisheries committee  That's a very good question. We can only take appropriate action against a regulated party in Canada. We can't take any extra-territorial action outside of Canada. What we have done with the new requirements—again, I keep going back to them because they're so significant and we

Fisheries committee  As I said, it can be a range from hefty fines to prosecution. We have not removed or suspended anybody's licence yet, but it's quite possible. As I said, the new regulations came out in January. With this new focus we've had recently—as I said, we just got money for food fraud—we