Not at all, and as a matter of fact, the industry that worked more closely with Environment Canada at that time was the manufacturing industry, as opposed to the retailers. Because we tend to be in the middle, we tend to get the news last.
Looking back historically as to the mistakes our organizations perhaps have made, we didn't protest strongly enough at the time manufacturers began consultations with government and we were not involved as directly as we should have been. All of a sudden now, we're left holding the bag of cost and liability for the upgrading of all these sites for all these products.
I'll give you an example. The Fertilizer Safety and Security Council got together to assess agri-retail sites as to the cost of upgrading. Their conclusion was it would range anywhere from $4,000 to $35,000 for the cost of upgrades for the very same security infrastructure we've introduced today.
Our research took no more than three weeks to conclude and more than tripled those estimates. In other words, industry doesn't seem to want to raise this as a red flag with government. Only when you finally shine a light on it do you realize that they were in error in terms of their cost estimates, and they should never have been the ones to speak in front of government on our behalf. We are the ones who speak on behalf of our members, not the manufacturers. So perhaps we were remiss.