Years ago I used to act for different corporations and I've watched the evolution of different industrial sectors over the last 15 to 20 years. The Canadian Chemical Producers' Association came up with a responsible care program, which is now in 85 countries worldwide. It was invented here in Ottawa. It is an international success story for the industrial sector. The Forest Products Association of Canada completely rebooted itself and set new standards for their members, as did the CCPA, and said to industrial players out there, “If you want to play as part of our team, we're not waiting for government or the environmental liability that's forthcoming from a major spill in a lake, and we're not waiting for lender liability provisions to creep up from the United States, as they are into Canadian litigation today, which will cost you not $100 million in a case like this, but probably $1 billion in environmental damages.” They simply said, “We're jumping ahead. We're going to become, as they say in French, chef de file. We're going to come together and we're going to say we're not waiting any more.”
Canada is urbanizing at breakneck speed. Intensification and densification is occurring in every major urban centre. In this city where we live it is 10%. In other cities it is 15%. For some it is 8% and for some it's 25%.
Are your insurance rates up as a result of the spill?