I assume you're referring to players in the field, to farmers and ranchers. In this country a lot of the provisions that are more relevant to them are governed under the Health of Animals Act. We've been assured on a number of occasions that this bill largely deals with the matter of animals after they're processed and the impact of the traceability in the system from the point of processing forward, which interestingly is where over 94% of food safety risk actually occurs. If you're going to focus your attention, that is the right place to focus it.
We believe this comes under a number of other bills that are probably the appropriate places to deal with these issues. Let's not forget there's provincial legislation, and in some cases that's on top of federal legislation and overrides within the province. This is largely addressed, in terms of live animal movement, and I think would be the main issue. We work directly with the provinces and through the industry on a whole range of initiatives that we think in the longer term are the right solution, everything from our verified beef production systems to how we are able to look at various training programs for the industry. One thing everyone is gratified with is that virtually every industry in Canada—and I know the meat, cattle, and hog industry—treats food safety as what we refer to as a non-competitive issue. We need to share information freely and we need to share technology freely.
As we take a look at enhancements, and I mentioned a new national manifest, we're trying to get the federal government to modernize its system so we can start to use electronic certification. We've had those discussions for over seven years now, and we're still hearing 2016 as the date that will be completed. If you concentrate on the right areas and get those fixed, I don't think it's a lack of regulation that we're going to find will add other enhancements to our system. It's how we can embrace technology and how we can work together with systems that will improve the overall advocacy of food safety in this country.