Yes. I, too, think we can provide you with sound advice. It's an excellent question, and our advice would be that, yes, first of all, there are regulations that do not harmonize well. They don't even have to be crossing provincial-federal barriers. Often they are even federal or industry-related codes that don't harmonize well with federal regulations. The common sense approach, the more efficient, businesslike approach, would be to try to harmonize as much as possible, obviously.
The government seems fairly good—at least in my perception of Transport Canada, anyway—at reaching out to the industry to have experts and specialists engage in either multi-departmental task forces or some type of industry working group that advises and consults with the government on what are practical, cost-effective solutions that would not be detrimental to the operations of agri-retailers.
We get that opportunity with Transport Canada. With CSA B620, for example, we actually helped write the regulation to make it palatable for our industry. That hasn't translated to other regulations, however. For example, on the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, actually the bill was passed, but we don't know what is going to be in it as far as the regulations are concerned, so we fear we won't have an ability to consult with the government on that. I will backtrack. Part of our problem is that we don't know which department should be working with us. Intuitively you would think it would be Public Safety, if you are dealing with matters of products that have security issues, but we've been passed over to Agriculture to deal with this issue. I think even Agriculture is a little bit uncomfortable as to why they have to be the department to deal with this. They tell us so.
A multi-departmental task force would be the approach to take in advance of any regulations, and to foresee 10 years down the road--not do it product by product, as we are today, but anticipate the products that we will want to regulate in the future. We know urea is eventually going to be targeted. Urea has an explosive potential, but it's not currently regulated under the restricted components regulations. We know it is coming, so why would we want to fence today and then you'll tell us tomorrow we have to work on our urea and fence it? It will be impractical and not cost-effective. So let's anticipate where we're going to be in 10 years and secure everything in a single crop input security protocol that makes sense for the citizens of Canada, for the government, and for us from a business perspective.