Yes, absolutely. Thank you for that question.
You're exactly right. What's happening in Europe is that governments develop procurement policies for their own purchasing habits and they tend to be done behind closed doors and without any open process. You end up having--whether it's intentional or not is a question--non-tariff barriers being put in place.
In some cases, we find those to be quite restrictive for our industry. They will put in place criteria that really don't apply to any country other than a country like Canada. As I say, it's hard to cast aspersions as to whether it's intentional or not, but you have to assume that there is some intent there.
Opening up that process and having it as a free and open process whereby we understand what's happening and then having a method through which you can appeal if things don't go the way you think they should go...that's also part of this annex. You would set up a body that would have an objective perspective.
I think the other important point of this thing, which I did not mention in my opening remarks, is that quite often the EU acts as a first step, in many respects, on the environmental side of things. Other countries around the world will look to the EU as an example of how policies are developed and what sort of criteria are in those policies. When we look to our other marketplaces such as China, which represents an enormous opportunity for our industry, if they quickly adopt some of the policies that are being developed by the EU governments from a procurement standpoint, we could find ourselves shut out in other marketplaces as well.
So it's an important sort of beachhead to get in there. They can often set policies elsewhere just by example. For that reason, it's also important beyond just the current ramifications of the direct EU-Canada deal.