We've had ongoing discussions for almost the past year with representatives from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and CFIA. Because this is a private member's bill, CBSA was not consulted specifically on the language within the bill, but we have been consulting closely with the department and the agency—in particular since the bill has been tabled—in looking at how we would start to administer the framework as described within this particular bill.
It's really difficult for us right now to determine what the associated costs would be for the implementation of this at the agency. Some of it is just going to be what this does to the market itself, if the bill does have the effect of reducing the number of live exports of horses. Obviously, that would factor into the amount of resources CBSA would need to apply in order to enforce this legislation as drafted.
There are lots of factors that go into that, but the work is still in very early days. There's an 18-month implementation in the bill. Once it receives royal assent as drafted, it wouldn't come into force for the following 18 months. During that period, we would anticipate concluding the work of understanding how this will be enforced at the border.
