I'll lead off and then I'll let Chris jump in, sir, if you don't mind.
My predecessor was involved. I took over as chair after the regrettable falling apart of that initiative. From what I gather, there was a lack of agreement within the committee about standards. In a strange way, that led us to go back and focus on doing standards ourselves, based on research. Chris will be able to talk more about that.
You're right. That initiative, which everybody had high hopes for, did not work. The details of why it didn't work were before my time. Sometimes when you face difficulties, you have to regroup and take a different path. That forced us to go back and look at the whole concept of standards and look at how we were going to base them. We went with an evidence-based and research-based approach to doing standards.
Chris referred to a little bit of.... There's been a lot of research on animal-human interaction. The application of it—you'll hear from Dr. Colleen Dell in the next hour—has been supported by Health Canada in quite a large study. We've taken part in that. We feel that we can build on that research base to have a coherent, logical and consistent model for standards. We actually have something in the works with the Province of Saskatchewan, which is proceeding but hasn't got there yet.
Again, I do the big picture. Chris can talk about the details.