If the chairman will indulge me, let me give you an illustration. I hope this is a relevant illustration, and if it isn't, I apologize.
If I purchase an automobile in one province and want to move it to another province, it has to undergo an inspection, as a rule, to ensure that it's safe. But if I move that vehicle from one point to another point within the same province, I am not required to have an inspection done on that vehicle. What we were finding increasingly in the grain industry is that we were inspecting grain that, for lack of better terminology, was staying within the same jurisdiction. It was a cost that most people—maybe not 100%, but most stakeholders—would agree was not a necessary cost. Does it mean that in the case of your vehicle, if you thought there was a problem with it, you wouldn't have it inspected, if it were your choice, and that you wouldn't incur that cost if you felt it was required?
Does that help you to understand why the commission and, I think, stakeholders feel that some of the mandatory costs, as they occur under the current Canada Grain Act, need to be made optional and to be determined by those within the same jurisdiction? To me, that illustration made sense.
This doesn't mean that the inspections can't take place. Under the new act, those inspections can take place; they just won't be done by the Canadian Grain Commission. Those who inspect the grain would have to be approved by the Canadian Grain Commission. It doesn't mean that the Canadian Grain Commission can't monitor the quality of grain that moves; we still have the ability to monitor, to ensure that the quality is there and that registered varieties are involved. We have all of the powers that producers need to ensure that the grain quality assurance is there.
It's on that basis that we put this as the priority ahead of what you said were 200 job losses—though we don't know exactly how many there will be. It's not that we're happy about the jobs; but again, our primary responsibility is to work on behalf of producers in the grain industry and to the benefit of Canada. That's what we're trying to do.