In essence, this is not even a theoretical question, because we lived it prior to adding Vanessa's Law authorities to NHPs. There are many consequences, but maybe I can highlight three that are top of mind for me.
Number one—and there's been a lot of discussion about this today—when we have the most serious of situations and we do not have a co-operative entity, a co-operative company—again, I will stress that this is the minority of cases—we will not have a way to remove products from retail shelves. I firmly believe that Canadians think their health regulator has that ability, but we would not.
Two, if someone were to disobey a mandatory recall or in some other way be in strong non-compliance with the regulations and the act, and we wanted, after we had mitigated the risk, to move to punitive measures, our stick would be very small—you heard, $5,000 in fines. In Vanessa's Law, we also have injunction authority, which hasn't gotten much attention today. If someone was willfully non-compliant, we would be very hard-pressed to follow that up with the tools we have in a meaningful way.