Since the Canada Gazette was published on February 19, we have had two meetings with tobacco companies on the specific issue of the implementation period. They raised all the issues that they have raised today. We listened to them intently and, again, had discussions internally to try to balance what was said to us with the health impacts that we're trying to implement through these labelling regulations.
We are aware of the issues that were raised by the Canadian suppliers, but we believe that it's more an issue of the capacity of a single supplier to meet the surge in work rather than an issue of job losses. Tobacco companies are responsible for managing the relationship they have with their suppliers in Canada and across the world, and as was mentioned earlier, these very large companies have been able to meet various labelling requirements across the world in close to 40 countries.
As a last point, I just want to say that this is in line with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control guidelines on implementation.