Again, I don't know whether Richard has more details, but we did check with our people on whether this specific product would work after a killing frost and they said no.
Not all glyphosates are the same. They have different formulas, different adjuvants, and different safeners. The information we got was that this product does not work, which is why it's on the label like that. To use a product inconsistently with the label is not in compliance with the Pest Control Products Act and regulations.
The other thing I want to say is that at the NAFTA meeting last week, as an example, we did not have environmental groups represented. We did not have health NGOs represented. The discussion at the Pest Management Advisory Council is that right now those groups are fairly satisfied with where we are as a pesticide regulator and where we want to go. They aren't concerned about the own use import program.
Our provincial colleagues raised the container disposal problem with us. In terms of us taking it forward, we are trying to make sure we are keeping environmental groups and health groups as satisfied as critical user groups, which obviously include agriculture, when it comes to what we're doing as a pesticide regulator. That's not an easy job of balancing.
Right now we're at a point where, quite literally, we've had some of the environmental groups say, “We are satisfied and we may actually not continue on your Pest Management Advisory Council because we have other fish to fry, other issues that are now of a higher priority.” With the own use import program, they've been very carefully watching what is happening and how Health Canada is enforcing, because they recognize that this is product that isn't registered in Canada but is brought in under other things.
In dealing with the own use import, we're also thinking of what the provinces are raising to us as concerns and what the health and the environmental groups are raising to us as concerns. They were invited to be part of the own use import task force, and both the health and the environmental groups elected to see all the documents and raise issues just in a paper review. Again, they've maintained enough satisfaction and confidence that they haven't been active participants. They've just been watching all of the written information, which we've been continuing to share with them, as with everybody, in regard to what's going on with that program.