I think that's where you need what we call a “graduated system”. I totally understand the level of export activity that Canada's agrifood is engaged in. I know that the federal government has made significant commitments and is seeking others for trade agreements.
It's a question—if you're thinking of Al, Bert, and Charlie—about how they continue to function much more at the ground level. The experience we had with the meat regulation in B.C. is that if you're going to have different levels on scales of activity—and they're going to have them on the regulatory radar, because food safety, animal health, and public health are important—then you have to graduate the requirements so they remain doable.
My belief is that you can have levels of requirement that coexist. Canada can have an export type of requirement under its trade agreements and subnational systems, rather like we have in the meat inspection regulation, that allow a Charlie the possibility of growing and still honour the activities of an Al who's selling at the farm gate. I know that you cannot have Al and Bert, or perhaps even Charlie, function if they're subjected to an export-level requirement.
Also, let me say that this is not about lowering a standard. It's about adapting a methodology so that different levels of business can function.