Thank you, Ms. Fry. It's always a pleasure.
First, on this whole issue, we actually started on this with Mr. Coderre, I'm not sure when, but it seems like forever. We started with our stated principles that we were looking for and were, quite bluntly, getting nowhere. It took an awful long time.
We're pleased that we're moving forward. Hopefully, we can. Mr. Grégoire, the ADM and an excellent gentleman, was saying, we're never moving fast enough for the Teamsters on this issue.
So we'd like this to move faster. The air world needs an appeal. On the entire issue of the air freight forwarders, we have to.... One at a time, we can do this.
On the harmonization issue, again, the Teamsters started working on this four years ago. I was down in the United States, and our chief lobbyist, Mr. McLuckie, was up in Canada and met Minister Lapierre and talked about this extensively with him. To be blunt, I guess we maybe led a bit, pushing this forward since 2001 or 2002.
We've been pushing the harmonization issue as well. I think it's critical to the success of our industries. We talk about costs, ensuring there is one type of system, with the proper appeals, with the sensitivity. I'll come to talk to you about some of these sensitive questions, and I'm sure you'd be interested in them.
But on cost of training, there's a great deal of training already undertaken, if you look at our rail industries, in which we're heavily involved, and certainly in the trucking and courier industries and all sorts of areas. You're right, it'll be one more cost. But again, it's part of our cost of doing business. And with our international partners in the air world—air freight forwarders—this is being driven by our requirements under international agreements. With the dangerous goods, again, it's partly with the international...and partly with America. To put it bluntly, we have no choice. We wish we didn't--