Madam Speaker, I have to compliment my colleague for the best question I have received.
First, this is based on the many years of experience of our auto manufacturers and importers running vehicles on Canadian gasoline with MMT in it. The spark plug point is based on experience over that period of time. However they have been forced to do this by the development of the new onboard diagnostic systems. In the same way we monitor the speed of the vehicle or how much gasoline there is the tank, we can now monitor what emissions are going from the exhaust pipe. Those onboard diagnostic systems are a new, very expensive, exciting innovation in the automobile industry. They have been coming along for some years but in the 1996 models they are particularly sophisticated and expensive and that is what is forcing the issue at the present time.