Industry committee  To the best of my knowledge, no, they did not. We're not aware of any country that does it through a sliding scale on throughput. As my colleague Mr. Vinet said, we think that would be extremely difficult to administer, both from a cost perspective and from an administrative pers

Industry committee  I certainly haven't discussed it. But I just want to make it clear, when you say we pick the period of time out of the air, that we did not pick it out of the air.

Industry committee  The two years is not picked out of the air. We did this based on discussions, based on previous data and that kind of thing.

Industry committee  No.

Industry committee  I don't think they're very happy.

Industry committee  The short answer to that is no, we did not consider a sliding scale. Just as you indicated, and my colleague Mr. Vinet indicated, the owner of the device is required to keep the device accurate. If large retailers with that kind of throughput are getting their pumps checked every

Industry committee  That would be a difficult one to answer. First of all, I would like to state that Measurement Canada will still be out there doing marketplace monitoring or random inspections. Granted, we won't be doing the same quantity of inspections we're doing now, but we will be out there

Industry committee  No, I don't believe so. First of all, we have built into the bill--and I'll use gas pumps as an example--that if any retailer could not get the pump inspected within a two-year period and can demonstrate that they've made every effort to do that, then they're going to be given

Industry committee  Yes. We firmly believe that is the case.

Industry committee  I can only comment on part of that. As part of our review, we were looking at a number of sectors. We went to StatsCan and identified that there were approximately 39 trade sectors in Canada where measurement formed the basis of the transaction. Then we started on these trade se

Industry committee  We use the term about half a coffee cup. Now, we don't have a standard coffee cup, but it's about that. I used to use five of those little creamers for your coffee, but of course they vary in size as well.

Industry committee  It could go either way, although the bias is in favour of the retailer.

Industry committee  Certainly it focuses on a lot more than gasoline. It focuses on eight sectors, plus the Electricity and Gas Inspection Act. We have retail petroleum, obviously, as well as wholesale petroleum, dairy, retail food, fishing, logging, grain and field crops, and mining. The compliance

Industry committee  Yes. As a retailer or as an owner of the device, you want to make sure your profit and loss is based on a number of factors. Certainly if you're giving away product, you should be concerned about it. Most retailers are very concerned about it. They want to ensure that they're not

Industry committee  I'm going to turn this over to Ms. Roussy. She explained it better than I could the last time, and I suspect she'll be able to do it again today.