I'm going to take a little step back in time to answer your question, if I may.
This organization exists because of advocacy work in the disability community more than 20 years ago. Because this sector is so fragmented—and it was even more so then—we needed to come up with an impartial organization that would advocate with and for Canadians with disabilities and other stakeholders to make sure that the gaps would be filled and the dots would be connected. Doing that requires bringing all these different stakeholders together, including the service providers, discipline sectors, and so on. It's a huge mandate.
Yes, there's going to be adversity, but we actually work through that. We've done a fair amount of work in terms of consensus-based decision-making and appreciative inquiry to work with all the different interest groups. There is always going to be that adversity, but we also emphasize that this is not an adversarial process.
In other words, our standards, our national standards of Canada, have been published by the Standards Council of Canada. They're on their website. They are ready to proceed to development. I'm actually working on the first technical committee. We've had a phenomenal response from across Canada for people interested in participating on the technical committee.
That's how the process starts. It starts with a technical committee that will vote and will work very diligently on a draft standard. Later on, it will go to public consultation. We'll get feedback, and it will come back to the technical committee. We'll make revisions as necessary. We'll clean up the draft standards, and then it will go to the Standards Council of Canada for their review. If all is good, the Standards Council will publish that national standard.
We are ready to go. We're out of the gate and proceeding to development. The reason we are doing it is that this is exactly the nature of our mandate. We are here to make sure that people don't fall through the cracks, and neither do the animals, and also to make sure that we are able to bring justice into this environment for the sake of the end-users and their animals.