First of all, I think I would agree with your initial statement. We can regulate fuel quality under CEPA. I don't know if you need the Clean Air Act or Bill C-30 to do that. Obviously, you could use it to regulate our fuel quality. The point, though, is that the technology requires appropriate fuels and fuel quality. That's what we call the total systems approach, and if you don't have the fuel quality there, then you're not going to get and consumers are not going to get the environmental benefit of the technology they're paying for.
It's absolutely critical that you match the technology and the fuel and the fuel quality in the marketplace at the same time. That's what we call a total systems approach. That's what we need in Canada. As Mr. Adams pointed out, we were very alarmed, actually, with the reference in the notice of intent suggesting that in terms of quality, the commercial fuels should be left up to the industry.
The State of California--not on fuel economy, I want to be very clear, but on smog-related emissions--recognized the benefits you get by supporting the technology with appropriate fuel quality. California has and has always had some of the best fuel quality in the world, and that's why they've been able to achieve such significant reductions in terms of smog.
We don't have a national fuel strategy in Canada. We don't have a national fuel regulation in Canada. We have a guideline, and it's a guideline that is pretty much driven by the industry that produces the fuel. We actually pulled out of the Canadian General Standards Board on the basis that every time we made a suggestion to them about improving fuel quality it was deemed, under their ballot processing, to be non-persuasive.
So we believe there's a role, whether it be under CEPA or the Clean Air Act, to look after fuel quality as well as perhaps additives.