It's very difficult to compare legislative structures. Most countries are unitary countries that don't have the federal-provincial differentiation. You can only really compare partially with the U.S., but mostly with Australia, which is the closest country. Most of our competitors are in third world countries. Saying that Canada's requirements are more stringent than some developing countries isn't saying very much, or you can't really conclude anything from that.
Australia tends to have a very different structure. Most of the actual stringency requirements flow out of provincial requirements rather than federal. The federal is evolving over time. It's really difficult to say how some of it is going to develop in the future.