With respect to the bond, my understanding is that there are only two manufacturers located on a first nations reserve that have both a federal and a provincial manufacturing licence: Grand River Enterprises in the Six Nations, and another manufacturer—Choice Tobacco is part of the name of the company.
So I don't know the answer to that question. There aren't many that have both a federal and a provincial licence.
I think this is a very serious business and that if a business person is going to enter into an area with such risks to public security, public revenue, and public health, this would be possible.
One option would be to pay the manufacturer interest, if there's a question with respect to cost of capital—that is an option to consider—so that they would get interest every year. But the bond would remain with the government, in the event that there's a compliance problem.
There's a problem now, and we heard testimony about it, of how many fines are imposed by the courts that are simply not collected. If you have a bond, you can deal with that problem. If they don't pay their fines, it comes right out of their bond, and they have to replenish their bond or lose their licence.
So there are different ways you could structure administration of the bond. There has to be due process; there has to be some legitimate protection, so there's not.... Nonetheless, there has to be an ability for law enforcement authorities to act quickly in the public interest.