Mr. Chair, it is correct that when it's just used as a precursor, ephedrine and pseudoephedrine are regulated in a different framework as controlled products. Because here it's a health product, it's approved for a therapeutic use—decongestion—and it's then used by organized crime, dismantled and made into methamphetamine. Because it's sitting under the Food and Drugs Act, we needed to find a way to make sure that it didn't go out in an uncontrolled way to those who wanted to use it for, again, lethal purposes.
That's really the difference. It's not a straight precursor. It's actually a health product that can be repurposed, and that's why we needed to deal with it specially. Having the supplementary measures would be very important to keeping it behind the counter, or in front of the counter, just to make sure that organized crime, for example, cannot get it and repurpose it.