That's not the issue. We have the Constitution with a division of powers. I think the challenge is that there's a lot of fuzziness, especially in key areas like environmental regulation and transportation regulation. Rather than just pretend that there isn't fuzziness and each level of government proceeding full steam ahead, maybe they ought to have a conversation.
Let me share an example of what has gone well and another recent example that's going less well. For most of the last eight years, we've had a very comprehensive, multi-stakeholder, federal-provincial process to discuss how to improve the important issue of air quality across Canada. That process has been complicated. It's complex, and there's going to be a lot of money spent to achieve the objectives, but from day one there's been clarity on what the role of the federal government is and then what the role of the provincial governments is. Yes, it's a complex process, but it's moving very well.
We're currently in discussions with Health Canada on a consultation where they're positioning or proposing a very significant new role for the federal government that would involve managing the risks of workplace exposures to different substances. We are committed to continual improvement in managing workplace exposures, but until today, until this consultation started, that was clearly a role for the provincial governments. I could list at length all of the requirements they have.
It's not that we oppose a federal role. Perhaps there's a gap that the federal government needs to fill, but we would only say that, before they jump into that arena and start to play, perhaps they need to have a discussion with the provinces to really identify what that gap is and then figure out the appropriate role for the feds.