Chair, I would certainly like to open up and welcome a discussion on compliance rates with Measurement Canada, which is what the government ought to have done, as opposed to picking and targeting and slandering one particular sector of the gas retail in this country.
I point out a comment that was made by Measurement Canada. In 2009 Measurement Canada was asked to estimate the impact of measurement and accuracy for fuel dispensers. The question is why didn't the government ask for you to look at quarry and sandpits, 47% accuracy rate? Why didn't they ask you to do metal scrap or perhaps fruit and vegetable, at 83%? Why didn't they do chemical products, at 62.2%?
Mr. Lake and others may dismiss the fact that electricity rates are only accurate to the tune of 74.19%, but that's one quarter missing, by your own analysis from Measurement Canada. So let's not get caught into the argument of why witnesses were not brought forward. They were specifically to go after the retail gasoline industry.
I'm suggesting if you really want to be honest in terms of your approach on the accuracy question, you would have gone after all industries, and I'd be quite willing to extend those discussions, Mr. Wallace and others, into looking at all the other inaccuracies.
I can tell you, Chair, the concern that I have is this. If it was not validated by the comments that were made here, it's certainly the result of the information that suggests we have a lot of work to do, and there had better be uniformity and there had better be uniformity quickly, because it's consumers' money that's being played here. As the Liberal Party, we want to make sure that there is uniformity and that Canadians can expect that when they buy something they are actually getting what they pay for, as opposed to going to an industry that has a pretty damned good track record, notwithstanding the hyperbole.