Canada is the United States' largest trading partner, and as such I think it's really essential that there be linkage between the two programs. However, just to echo what you've just heard, I think it will be difficult for U.S. policy-makers to factor in a harmonization goal at the same time that they're trying to get something through the Senate and the House.
I think there are so many obstacles here at home that they're focusing exclusively on getting it through our process. Hopefully, at the end of the day we have two programs, a Canadian program and a U.S. program, that can be linked. I think there are only a few elements that actually would keep programs from linking.
Mr. Murrow has identified many of those. I think program rigour is a key issue, if the two programs are not similarly rigorous, having a similar scope of coverage, similar elements, including the price controls and offsets, I think that would make it difficult to link.
I do hope at the end of the day that they can be linked and I think there are ways to do that even with elements that are not exactly alike, through discounting, for example, exchange rate kinds of linkage elements.