It is voluntary.
As Mr. Webber was saying earlier, in the context of the renewal of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, CFIA, membership in the Fruit and Vegetable Dispute Resolution Corporation, or DRC, may be made obligatory in order to do business and to obtain a licence to sell fruit and vegetables. Currently, if one of our clients is a member of the DRC, he or she has access to support and assistance for mediation or arbitration. However, if a client is at fault, he has no obligation to pay us anything. We have no way of forcing anyone to pay us the amounts we are owed.
In the recasting of the CFIA, which could take place later this year or the next, making membership in the DRC mandatory in order to be able to do business in the fruit and vegetable sector was one of our demands.