In 1996 the government acknowledged the need to recognize two industry councils based on the vastly different aspirations and interests of the two industry councils’ affiliated members regulated under the Pesticides Act. The names of the two industry councils are firstly, the PIRC, administered by OIPMA, and secondly, the PIC administered by Landscape Ontario (LO). The two industry councils have same or similar declared IPM educational goals and objectives. However, the process that each council supports to achieve these laudable goals largely differentiates the two industry councils administrated by their respective largest trade association member.