Okay, there are two questions. The first is the tax. It's a little inflammatory, but it's the prospect of a user fee that we're facing, on two counts.
One is access to the Canadian Organic Standards. There's been an agreement in place for two and a half years now, where the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is providing a fee to the Canadian General Standards Board to make sure the Canadian Organic Standards are available and accessible online. That concludes in 2014. At that time, we don't know whether there will be a charge of as much as $180 just to look at the Canadian Organic Standards for every farmer in the country, and not only those who are currently farming, but those who potentially might want to consider organic farming. That's very concerning for us.
Additionally, unlike the U.S. and Europe, we don't have an ability to maintain and update our organic standards to remain responsive and innovative to opportunity or new materials we may want to useāthat our competitors use. We have the structure to do that, but it's a bit of a soccer game as to whose court that ball is in and who needs to be paying for that. In the absence of any funding, we're unable to update our standards right now.
Moving on to the low-level presence question, we've participated, and the organic value chain round table has participated, in a number of government consultations on the subject. The message from the value chain round table was clear that there is a lot of concern about this from the Canadian perspective in the organic sector, particularly around the area of seeds.
If seeds are coming into the country.... Sometimes the threshold of one in ten thousand seeds is used as an example for the LLP, or low-level presence, conversation. Well, one in ten thousand seeds can actually have a very dire consequence on the foundation seed in Canada, if those seeds can enter into our supply chain, environmental release....
At the end of the day, from the organic perspective, we trust that our government regulators and government oversight systems are there for a reason, and we would prefer that our own government is conducting those assessments rather than a foreign body.