This is a question, not an amendment at this point.
We talked to one importer who spoke—this was not at the committee, but in a more private conversation--about changes we make to our regulations that could be deemed to limit the importation of products, particularly from the United States or Mexico. Always the spectre of NAFTA gets raised, in terms of whether Canada is putting up a false barrier. I think through the experience of trying to get Canadian manufacturers to the committee and realizing just how few there are and how many of our products are now being imported from south of the border or overseas....
What did the department—and I'm not sure whether this is to the parliamentary secretary or to you—do to verify what legal challenges could be brought?
The thing we don't want to do is put in a regulation that someone can challenge at a NAFTA court, or WTO, or wherever they would take it, while trying to do something good, which is to improve the efficiency of products. More importantly, do we have experience in doing that and know that we can get away with it?
I don't know who, of the parliamentary secretary or the officials—