Off the top of my head, I want to thank the committee, which adopted the proposal by the Union québécoise des microdistilleries in its recommendations to the Department of Finance in its pre-budget consultations report. That is recommendation 331, which adopted our proposed model.
I should point out that national models for excise duty vary from country to country. In some countries, the distilleries are still very large and very industrialized and excise duties remain high, but those countries are also adapting to the emergence of microdistilleries. They recognize them and provide them with tax relief and government incentives.
At present, that is not the case in Canada when it comes to excise duties, although we have a very large microdistillery industry developing. We have to keep pace with the new entrepreneurial and social circumstances in the country.