It's very important to understand that the U.S. had this same issue in the early 1990s, and they resolved it by creating, in 1994, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. They basically recognized exactly what Truehope has just said, that the vitamins had a powerful, necessary, and positive....
It was so powerful a movement, as it was in Canada, that in 1994 it was put through both the Congress and the Senate with 100% consensus. That's what we were hoping in 1997 when we invested the time and money, as over a million consumers and tens of thousands of small businesses. We were hoping that with the 1998 report—and they did start the legislative renewal, by the way, and I attended one of them—we would get a harmonization of this category with the U.S. third category, which was food and which was appropriate for what we had. That did not happen, and the regulations came out of the blue and sabotaged it.
On the second question, from a consumer point of view, we feel we need to be able to have informed freedom of choice, and the point has been made around the table that this doesn't mean having a federal bureaucrat telling me that I can or can't take a product, but it does mean that the federal government has a responsibility to provide me with the statistics so that I can make informed choices from evidence-based statistics of what's likely to harm me or what's likely to kill me or my family or loved ones.