Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
This is a very interesting discussion. I'd like to pursue the standards aspect of it. Being a manufacturer of electrical systems myself for many years, I know what difficulties arise there. For me to get Underwriters Laboratories approval on some of my equipment costs several thousand dollars, even on the simplest thing, and it could run into the tens of thousands of dollars depending on what equipment it was.
Conversely, in the safety systems area, I could not import United States material that was approved by Underwriters Laboratories Incorporated. It was not permissible to market that ULI-approved material in Canada, even though that was the American standard for fire protection, as well as Factory Mutual's, which was another one.
We have this myriad of different standards and approvals. In keeping with what Ms. Dawson mentioned earlier, I have a question. I would think that it would be an easier component or function to do within NAFTA, at least, for the three countries to come together on some kind of commonality on some of these approval bases. But is that a function of NAFTA? If so, has anything ever specifically been worked towards that?
Who would like to give that one a try?