Thank you for the question. It's a very good one.
The federal requirements are based on interprovincial trade and on foreign country requirements. So there are some things in those federal plants that are done because it's a requirement of the U.S., or Japan, or so on.
When it comes to trade interprovincially within Canada, that is something we have been working on. Paul Mayers has been a lead on this in working with the provinces.
There has been a lot of work done in the past decade working on what's been known as the national meat code. The objective with the national meat code is to establish a national standard for abattoirs and meat processing plants that all provinces could implement.
The ultimate goal here would be to have provinces and their meat inspection systems start to harmonize, meeting this national standard. The ultimate goal, on the basis of that, would be to allow interprovincial trade based on that national standard. In other words, we could have abattoirs that wouldn't necessarily meet all the requirements for export to the U.S., Japan, or whatever those myriad requirements might be, yet they would meet a national standard, and by virtue of doing that, would be able to trade interprovincially.
There is a lot of momentum on this file at the moment. We're working very hard towards that goal and we'll keep you posted on it.