Yes, it speaks a little bit about the different schemes currently existing in provinces as well. Provincial schemes and provincial guidelines and requirements tend to address certain laboratories--for example, the medical diagnostic labs, or there may be requirements for research grants for the research labs. There is not a single national standard that addresses all laboratories, and they may include people handling water treatment testing laboratories, environmental labs, as well as research, and Canadian academic and diagnostic communities. We believe it's very important for them all to have a national foundational piece of laboratory safety level. So we absolutely want to level the playing field.
We know that the research labs are probably the really good ones; the ones that the witnesses are from are already following laboratory biosafety guidelines. We do not believe the implementation of the bill, when you're already doing what we're expecting you to do, will result in a lot of extra effort in terms of duplication.
In terms of the processes and reducing administrative burden, we will do what we can in terms of program design to try to harmonize some of the different pieces. But you're correct, we're trying to level the playing field. There are lots of other labs out there that are not your absolutely brilliant research laboratories that are already following the guidelines.