That is an excellent question.
The standards development organizations accredited by the Standards Council of Canada use a non-consensual development process. For a standard to be referred to as “consensual,” three parties must absolutely be involved. First, if it is a product, there must be the manufacturers, then the users, then people with a general interest. I did not put those parties in order of importance. There could be regulatory organizations, experts, and so on. So there must be a balanced committee for a standard to be considered consensual. Those standards must not be confused by the ones called “industry standards”.
The companies and associations that establish standards do very good work but they have no duty to establish a consensus. They establish a consensus between themselves in the case of an industry standard, but then you always have to wonder whether the consensus extends to the two other players, the users and those with a general interest. That is a very important concept. I repeat that it is really considered when a standard is considered “consensual” and meets the Standards Council of Canada's criteria.