Thank you for the question.
Section 45 of the Competition Act is the conspiracy provision—and I am going to get to your specific question—which says that it's a criminal offence for competitors or potential competitors to fix prices, allocate markets and restrict output in the course of supplying a good or a service. When we're talking about purchasers agreeing together, the problem is that they are not supplying a good or a service; they are on the purchase side, with what we call a buy-side agreement. Under the last amendments to the Competition Act, in 2009, the word “purchase” was taken out of section 45. The possibility for us to intervene under the criminal provision for conspiracy was thus limited.