Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank Mr. Atamanenko for the sincerity with which he brings this forward. He's been contacted by the group, as I'm sure we all have, to bring forward a motion, and Mr. Atamanenko did it. I think it's rather unfortunate that Mr. Easter, on the other hand, just ran out and issued a press release with almost the exact same wording.
I have a problem with this. There are two points. One is that if what we've heard from the agri-retailers is true, my concern isn't that we put our guys on the same playing field. My concern is that our guys should be at an advantage, because this is not a national security issue. What I think we as a committee should do is undertake to have the decision-makers for this and the reasons for this regulation being put in place brought in front of us, so that we can understand it and take a real position on whether we should even be having these regulations put in place.