There's been a lot of talk about the gaps we found in the enforcement of the rules and the things that can be done on the supply-managed and the duty relief. We've heard from the CBSA about the types of steps they're taking on that.
The bigger picture on this, again, is needing to stand back and ask if this whole system is actually enforceable. Particularly, I'm thinking of the packages coming in through the mail.
It's great to have a system that says we charge duty on anything over $20, but if that can't be done, if the resources aren't there, and if the effort to actually to do that is such that not every parcel over $20 that should be charged duty is going to be charged duty, then Canadian businesses are going to say, “Wait a minute. This isn't the system we thought we were operating under. Things are coming in worth $100 or $200 and not always being charged duty, and that's not the system we thought we were working under.” Right? There's really very little that the CBSA can do in this case. In some of this, they're being asked to perhaps enforce a system that I don't know they can actually enforce.
The problems we found on the supply-managed, the duty relief, and those types of things are things they can fix. We heard today that they are in the process of trying to fix those. But there are other parts of this system where there has to be a real consideration of whether the system can actually be enforced as it is written on paper. What good is it to have a system where Canadian businesses think there is one system that is going to be enforced, but in actual fact, in some cases, it can't be enforced that way?