Thank you.
With respect to the first question, in international shipping, as it is described, the ships go all over the world and trade all over the world, so they need to be assured that the laws are fairly standard throughout the world. Through a UN agency called the International Maritime Organization, there are laws made about the operation of ships and the like, and the Canadian government follows the international laws and comes out with their own laws to go along with the international laws.
I guess what we're saying is that if we sign an international treaty, this bill, if it goes through as is, may go against the international treaty. The only problem we have is that you could have a situation whereby international law dictates that you must have a certain process or machinery on your ship, we agree to it, and then a month later some other process or equipment comes out that is a bit better. After you've just spent millions of dollars reconfiguring your ship to put on the new stuff, this other equipment becomes available. Could a citizen come up to us and say, “Well, you didn't use the best available technology”?
You get into situations where you're following international law and following Canadian law and regulation, yet if something changes in the marketplace so that a month later a process comes out that might be a bit better, you can't afford to just change it overnight. I guess that's what we're getting at in that point.