I would like to give you some examples. If you think about air emissions in Canada or air standards, air quality in terms of air pollution, if you look at the EU, if you look at Australia, if you look at the United States, Canada is the only country that has guidelines rather than standards. Although three of our guidelines are stronger than the ones in the U.S. in terms of the core air pollutants, and two of theirs are stronger than ours, theirs are actually standards and ours are guidelines. Our guidelines are weaker than the World Health Organization's standards across the board, than Australia's, and than the EU's.
The question becomes more complicated when we're talking about chemicals. It really depends on which chemical you're talking about. In some places we're definitely behind in some of the newer persistent and biocumulative chemicals that we're finding now. In some places, at times, CEPA can be stronger.
Some of the Great Lakes statistics that we presented before in briefs and submissions have shown that in the Great Lakes Basin in particular, per facility, we are doing worse than the U.S. in terms of the written amount of reproductive and developmental toxins and the number of carcinogens we put out of smoke stacks.