We're looking into that. It can be coming, we think, either from firearms in the past.... We didn't have as much hearing protection when we went to shoot. When I was in Saskatchewan, we would go out to the open range and we didn't have hearing protection. That's one thing that's being looked at. You hear stories of members putting the old .38 shells in their ears. That's what they would use.
That lack of hearing protection could be one of the causes. The other cause could possibly be the wind.... We don't really know why. We just know that we've improved the hearing protection. Now we really stress in our reports, when we see this, that when you go to a range now, you have to have hearing protection. We're actually telling people to put the earphones on.
Because of a lack of standards, that's what happened. We're hoping that over time we resolve this through better equipment and better education of our members, telling them that over time they will lose their hearing, that it will go down.