Well, it's really not going to have a whole lot of impact.
Basically, in the last budget, Bill C-368 snuck in fundamental changes to the Food and Drugs Act that move natural health products into the therapeutic product category. The therapeutic product category was created by Vanessa's law back in 2014 to basically say that we have a class of drugs, chemical pharmaceutical drugs, with a risk profile that's extremely high, so we actually need to give the minister more powers to address that risk. The minister can actually be extremely intrusive and make orders, whether they're good orders or not, and has extraordinary power over that industry.
They then brought in a structure for fines that are more realistic, a $5-million-a-day maximum fine. Interestingly enough, there is less jail time than there is for the regular drug provisions, two years of jail. For a big pharmaceutical company like Pfizer, $5 million a day for an ongoing offence is really nothing.
In 1998, the Standing Committee on Health held the broadest consultations in Canadian history of any standing committee to ask how we should regulate natural health products—