Exactly. It doesn't have the right stamp.
The service dog act in B.C. does not measure outcomes of training or standards of training. They only have what they call the “public access test”. They don't assess or look at the organization that I got my dog from and the standard that my dog was trained to. It's all about industry infiltrating government policy by being in the right place at the right time, by having members of Parliament sit on boards as active treasurers or chairs to push that organization's agenda. That's what's happened in B.C., Alberta and Nova Scotia.
I'm not afraid as an end-user—I'm not a trainer but an end-user—to call a spade a spade. When it comes to pushing their agenda, the industry is extremely predatory, and they'll do whatever it takes to push their agenda. One provider specifically, and that's ADI/IGDF, will push hard for their brand. They're affiliated with Wounded Warriors and they have inroads with Veterans Affairs and provincial government staffers. They're everywhere, and it's wrong. It needs to stop, and not just with them. All providers need to just step out.
Veterans Affairs can support that by suggesting to all the providers to send in all their documentation to the human resources standards organizations—their standards, documents, training manuals, all of that—and let them put something comprehensive together under one roof. If they have all the information from all the providers, the process would probably go pretty quickly.