The idea here, Mr. Dubé, is to take what is pretty standard practice among retailers right now and make that a requirement. In other words, it's a good business practice. It used to be followed as a matter of law in Canada. That changed in the 1990s. We're proposing to go back to those standards where Parliament would lay out the type of information that needs to be retained, and the commercial sellers will be required to maintain that information.
Some may choose to do it in a handwritten manual form. Others may choose to do it by a computer system or an automated inventory system. The actual method will be up to the retailer, but the important thing is the maintenance of those records. They will be the private property of the retailer. They will not be accessible to governments, but if the police are conducting a criminal investigation and they have reasonable grounds and, where appropriate, a warrant or a judicial authorization, the police would have access to those records in order to pursue a criminal investigation.