Let me try and clarify that. If a department sets up its own regulation, it does it under its own rules. It wouldn't qualify as a standard from our point of view. That's simply a regulation.
Where the federal staff, civil servants, sit on any kind of standards committee, national, regional, international, they are one of sometimes 20, sometimes 200 people who bring the technical expertise to that committee. When that standard is developed, we use the word “voluntary” because it has no effect in law until a government says it has some kind of reference in regulation.
Whether it's static or ambulatory makes no difference. Our point is that if federal regulators are involved in the standards that are important to this country and they are ready to bring them back in for referencing as soon as they are published, it brings an advantage to Canada. It also ensures that we have Canadian experts who sit on those committees and are comfortable that they are the right standards for Canada.