Thank you. Again, there are a number of questions there. I'll take one at a time, and I will ask Brian to give a little more detail in terms of the action plan.
The honourable member mentioned that a lot has changed since 1996. I think that's quite true. This committee has referenced a number of those things—globalization, trade has increased dramatically—with challenges for plant health. On this being a serious issue, we absolutely agree. Plant health is one of the major mandates of the CFIA. It is a mandate we take very seriously. Absolutely, there are potentially negative things that could happen in the plant health world.
You mentioned the direction of IM systems. We agree. We have had a little bit of a discussion here, and the Auditor General has certainly covered in her report the need to modernize our IM/IT systems. We are making a number of endeavours and initiatives. We are approaching this, first of all, on a system-wide basis. The kinds of specific things we will need on the plant health side need to be supported, first of all, by overall improvement in our IM/IT system. Then we can build on specific plant health issues as well.
We do have a plan of action that we tabled with the committee. It is clear we need to make that more precise. As Dr. Evans works through this over the next few months, we are happy to come back to the committee to table further information. We certainly will be dealing with the Auditor General and her colleagues to keep them apprised of the plans we have as we develop them in more detail.