They're both voluntary arrangements as to of whether or not one joins them. Once you've joined them, you have obligations, but which differ between the two associations.
In terms of the negative consequences, those would be in regard to your access as a supplier to the kind of reputable large-volume buyers around the world for your business. In that sense it's like other standards, ISO standards or other kinds of voluntary codes. I mean, compliance with the law is compliance with the law. Signing up for these types of arrangements is a way for you, as a factory owner, to get access to the buyers who represent a huge share of the market and who pay a better price for the product.
If I may, I would come back to the question about what's happening in the rest of the world. Canada does support what's called the Better Work initiative of the International Labour Organization, a global initiative that is working at these issues and that funds, among other things, research that can demonstrate to factory owners in different countries—this is part of the program we're supporting in Bangladesh—that if you improve the conditions and if you pay better wages and provide a better environment for your workers, you can actually become more profitable.
They're now working with the International Finance Corporation arm of the World Bank to develop financial products that can provide working capital to factories in different countries around the world. They're just starting up the program for...thinking about the program for Bangladesh, but the hope is that in future you can develop lending instruments that will provide working capital to factories who agree to upgrade their standards.
One of the barriers they face in doing that is often lack of access to working capital. Because of the terms they have with their suppliers and their buyers, they're chronically short of capital. So that provides an incentive for the factory owners to join these kinds of arrangements.