I don't know that it's been intentionally left open, per se. It is not just natural health products that are targeted. It's actually broader. It's also medical devices and pharmaceutical products.
Personal importation was originally intended for snowbirds. It's for people travelling, for example, to Florida or other places, who get prescribed something and bring it back. I think that, especially since COVID hit, commercialization of this loophole has been used essentially to commercialize electronic or online sales. This has really catapulted us into a very difficult situation for our sector in particular. Many Canadians pay taxes on these products. They're not cheap. They're looking for cheaper options, so they go online and take potential risks without necessarily even recognizing that a lot of these companies are American and not Canadian. A lot of them have “.ca” websites.
I do think that Health Canada has a big job to do to continue to inform Canadians, to help close that loophole and to make sure that Canadian regulations for natural health product manufacturers are fair in Canada. As I said, we're the only country to actually have a very onerous premarket approval system. It may take three years for our products to get to market, whereas in the States it could take three weeks.
There are a lot of angles to it, but I think a lot of it is unintentional.