Perhaps, Mr. Chair, I could just begin before I ask Mr. Bevan to respond to your specific questions.
We are and have been on the receiving end of a lot of the comments around buddying up and combining. There are views that are encouraging us to maintain our existing policy. As well, there are those who are encouraging us to diverge from the policy. The original intent when we started off on this was in fact to encourage those to combine with a view to buying each other out, to completing the transaction. We recognize that in the current circumstances there may be some financial pressures that may not allow everybody to complete what they had intended to start. So we are looking at all of the components of the issue at this point. There's not a uniform set of views on this, but we are weighing all of the pluses and minuses.
The decision we will make will also put it in such a way that we do not penalize those who have undertaken the first steps towards combining their enterprises. That, too, is something we're aware of, so that people who have made significant investments do not begin to lose them.
Perhaps, David, you would comment on the specifics.