With regard to the interprovincial pilot project, which our family business participated in, we had looked at originally being part of that project as provincially inspected plants that would trade interprovincially. That was the original intent of the project. The project intent changed to evaluating what limits there were on provincial plants from registering federally afterwards. So the result wasn't exactly the same. The economic impact that we have evaluated and your government has evaluated would be the impact of provincial plants throughout Canada registering federally.
We found that there was still a culture, it seemed, with the CFIA inspectors who were providing input into the changes that would be required in our plant. That culture was very much still focused on the federal traditional, prescriptive nature of policy and regulation. We felt that we were still getting the baggage associated with that.
We did some preliminary investigations. At the end we found that to register our plant federally would probably take at least another half a million dollars and only allow us to do the exact work we are currently doing.