This is actually a conversation that we've had with water treatment facilities, and we certainly consider waste water that is collected and contains pathogens to be a natural environment. To us this is clear in the bill as it exists.
So you do have to interpret the bill, and its different sections, in its entirety. We had no intention of considering a facility that is not cultivating and extracting these pathogens as falling under the scheme. I think that's clear.
We have exemptions, and those exemptions came after we heard the concerns expressed in the consultations stage of the initial draft of Bill C-54, but we also have a provision that we can make further exemptions in the regulations themselves.
We truly believe that as more stakeholders come forth, different scenarios may come up in the future, because some of these labs are not known to us. So having that provision allowing further exemptions in the regulations, if needed, is built in.