What's happened here is that for all countries, the export of antlers was taken care of by CFIA. In 1998 there was a shift in stuff in Saskatchewan, and the wildlife department kind of stepped in.
Here's what's happening today. For an export permit for horns and capes, you go to the provincial government and get a permit, if you can get one. They won't give one to everybody, because they're using it as a policing tool. If you're not in compliance with all their little regulations under their environment department and all of that, you won't get a permit. If you can get a permit, and you can go across, the Americans can take the horns and capes back. That I found out just yesterday. I've been working on this thing since July.
The federal government is not involved in it any more. For the provincial government, it's the Saskatchewan Environment Department that made the agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. There was a personal agreement with them. The agriculture department wasn't even involved in it in Saskatchewan, but they designated a person in Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food to have signing authority to sign the permit for you, and that's how it's done today.
That could be reversed overnight if there were a disease in the cervid industry. If the USDA were involved, that would automatically be thrown back to CFIA instantly.
When you talk about the legal things, just imagine if you were an American citizen who came to Canada, and you went back to the United States—and this applies anywhere in the world. If you haven't got the proper documentation—it's called a document of origin--from the country you shot that animal in, and you're taking those products back to the United States, you can be charged in the United States under the treaty act, and the sentence for that is a jail term.