In the time that I've been with FSAC, we haven't really had a go-to person beyond our normal lobbying with the government on the different issues that we run into, but the introduction of this bill definitely opened the door to a discussion that was long overdue as far as we're concerned. We never had a point of contact that we were able to go to and say, “This is what the issue is.”
A lot of times the provincial associations have talked to their provincial governments about issues, but at the federal level, before this bill we didn't really have a chance to discuss this particular issue the way we are now.