Obviously, it's due to other competing public priorities around identifying items on the ships that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency might have a concern about—whether they're properly inspected or not, or having at least proof of that. If the CBSA inspectors aren't satisfied that all the food items, for example parmesan cheese, have been stamped with an appropriate mark, then items on board the ship can be considered high risk.
This is a real example of what happened last year and the year before. By the end of the season, we were able to get around that, but the consequence of when items on board the ship are deemed high risk from a public health perspective, because the appropriate stamp on the cheese is not identified, for example, then the recycling process doesn't work the same way. The waste has to be taken off, and it can't go to recycling. The cruise lines would much prefer that wine bottles, pop bottles, cardboard and so on get recycled rather than not.
That's an ongoing issue that we're working with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency on, as well as Transport Canada.
