Is it going to have some impact on research? Sure, but if you work with animals, the red tape surrounding the use of laboratory animals is far more onerous than the red tape proposed for level two pathogens by Bill C-11. The red tape surrounding the use of radioisotopes in laboratories is more onerous than the red tape for level two pathogens proposed by Bill C-11. We have to have inventories of all the chemicals in the laboratory; why shouldn't we have an inventory of all the pathogens in the laboratory too?
The Public Health Agency of Canada, over the years, has produced MSDS sheets for just about all of these pathogens, with really good, detailed instructions about how to handle them. So there's really no excuse not to go this one extra step and just have a list of who's got what. I would hope that the Government of Canada would like to know who's got what—and where they've got it, as well. That's the whole essence of Bill C-11, knowing where pathogens are kept.