Okay. But I do note some of the things that you're bringing up, like the security issues. I know the intention of this bill is not to have the risk 2 groups go through this major security, but for 3 and 4 there is. So there is a bit of reasonableness here.
You know, you or some of my colleagues mentioned timing. You're correct. As with 9/11, things changed into—because Canada does belong to different international obligations, there is an obligation to improve our biosafety, our biosecurity, and that is the intent of this legislation. Knowing that importers have a certain standard, the idea is to level the playing field across Canada.
So I believe we're onside with the intent of it, but there are some significant questions on implementation.
You did mention the consultation processes. I would like to go over that because I do believe, from my information anyway, there was.... The consultation started back in November 2005 with the provinces and territories. That was my understanding.
Again in September-October 2007, the Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health was introduced to the essential elements of the federal framework, and they were invited for their comments.
The Pan-Canadian Public Health Network council was introduced to the essential elements of the proposed framework in November 2005.
Federal laboratories, in November 2006: 87 federal labs were notified that this was going to be happening.
External stakeholders, in September 2007, including representatives of academia, the private sector, distributors of pharmaceuticals, and again some provinces and territorial labs, were introduced to the essential elements of the proposed framework.
Then when Bill C-54 came, there was time for people to react and get some input in through here.
Respectfully, you do have certain legitimate issues that need to be responded to, and I think it would be good if we had a little bit more balance there.
I wanted to highlight a couple of things.
Number one, the fact that the collection, the use, and disclosure of information provisions in Bill C-11, because you did talk about personal information—