On the point about the letter's signatories, my understanding is that this is incorrect and many of those signatories do, in fact, have specific expertise when it comes to horses and horse welfare. There are also a number of professors from—I'm just going by memory here—the University of Guelph and other institutions who are themselves animal welfare experts. In any event, I can't google all their names at this moment so I won't give you specifics there.
In terms of whether or not to simply improve the regulations, as I mentioned earlier to MP Perron, the very nature of this transport, shipping 100 or 80 horses—whatever the number is—from feedlots in very rural areas in Canada to all the way overseas, is incredibly stressful and incredibly risky for these animals. Our position is that it is unnecessary suffering.