I have two points. One I have spoken to and would speak more to is the issue we face, sometimes, with level two labs. It's not the universities I'm worried about. It's not the provincial laboratories I'm worried about. There are a large number of labs out there that don't have that same kind of discipline, scrutiny, oversight, and so on. For example, with respect to the recent H5 incident in Europe, the Europeans are asking us what means we have to ensure that we can find out what is where and what's been sent where so we can actually trace this stuff. Currently we have no authority to do that.
Where provincial acts exist, they tend to be about occupational health and safety and about quality, not about biosecurity or biosafety. So it is filling a gap. It will require extensive consultation, as I said before, to address these issues. It will also require close cooperation with the provinces and territories to make sure that we're complementary. We're even talking with them about joint kinds of regimes in terms of how we minimize the burden on facilities and minimize paperwork and ensure that we actually address these things effectively.
On the question of how much you'd like to be clear about the intent in the legislation, how you proceed with that is a decision of the committee. As I said earlier, people may trust me. They may trust the agency. They want to know where we're going. But there are provisions. We're required by the whole legislative process to ensure that we consult extensively throughout the regulatory development process, which is what we will do. We are committed to that. You see in the regulatory framework, in the statements today, what our intent is and what our plan is, which is on the record.