Well, it's always up to the government when to introduce a bill and how to introduce it. In fact this is the third time this particular legislation has come before Parliament. It was before Parliament once in the House of Commons. It was introduced in the House, and it died very shortly after being introduced. Then it was introduced in the Senate and died again when the last election was called.
So we all have our fingers crossed on this one, because frankly I think we all believe it to be a very good initiative. I'll just hit a few points. We don't have any Shiprider operations at present. We've had a number of Shiprider pilots—in 2005 and 2007—and you've heard those described. But we have also deployed Shiprider operations—we called them marine security operations—in support of a number of events that have had important cross-border maritime components: the Olympics in Vancouver, the G-20 in Toronto last year, and also the Super Bowl that was in Detroit back in January of 2006.
The people who have been involved in it have had numerous opportunities to perfect it and to improve the training, and they're becoming quite adept at the training. The RCMP has a fairly large number of people already trained. The United States Coast Guard has to retrain a number of its people, because they get redeployed after a number of years. So the training is ongoing.
The other point I want to make is that—