Yes, as I said, we're mainly promoting a uniform standard across the country in terms of good biosafety practices. We still believe that is absolutely important for level 2 pathogens. We do not believe that they are of the biosecurity risk--i.e. the use of them for bioterrorism acts or security breaches--as select level 3 and level 4 pathogens.
It has always been the intent of the program that we treat risk group 2 less stringently but still recognize that they're dangerous organisms. I think Canadians feel we should know who possesses dangerous bacteria and viruses. We should know who has them, we should know that they are contained in the right environment, that there are good biosafety practices around them, and how they're transferred domestically.
Our European colleagues, who had an incident where a research lab disseminated, inadvertently, a rather nasty influenza virus, the H5N1, along with one of the H3N2 viruses, asked us whether, if this happened domestically and things were transferred from one province into another province, we would have any authority or be able to handle that situation. Right now we're not able to do that. Knowing who has what and who is transferring which organisms will allow us to rapidly handle a situation like that as well.