Federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald is pushing for speedier decisions from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Pest Management Regulatory Agency.
“We need a stable regulatory environment. We need an even playing field with the countries that we trade with. We need to expedite those (regulatory) decisions much more quickly and much more effectively,” MacDonald said in a media scrum at the meeting of federal, provincial and territorial agriculture ministers in Winnipeg.
“We’re starting to see a change in that. We’ve seen in presentations, here, today (by) CFIA. We’ve seen a change in them. But we need to keep pushing that,” MacDonald said.
