I guess there are a couple of things, and then I'll let Jane speak to the legal aspect more specifically.
But particularly as it relates to the ability or the limitations around the changing of the regulations and the development of the regulations--and it's not about criminalizing labs or scientists. In the 15 years that half the labs in the country have been importing and exporting under regulations, with penalties potentially including jail time, it has never been used. It's never needed to be used, because again, it's a collaborative, cooperative kind of process.
As far as the issue of whether the existing regimes can address it goes, I've just given you two examples of where they would not have addressed it, and could not address it, even in a province that has an extensive regulatory regime around laboratories. It's outside of their regime.
I'm really not worried about academic labs and university labs. But there are a number of other labs, and nobody's really sure that they're out there and what they're doing, or what they have in their fridges and how they're doing it.
When provinces do regulate, by and large it's on occupational health and safety and on laboratory standards, not on public safety.
So any regime that we begin, both for what bugs are in and out and for the level of regulation, is really for consultation with scientists and others regarding what makes sense. It doesn't make sense to have tuberculosis at the same standard as others like anthrax, for instance. That will be addressed in the development of the regulations.
I think I'll leave it at that and turn it over to Jane, to talk in terms of the regulatory powers, and so on.