Thank you very much, Chair.
I thank the witnesses for being here.
Mr. Friesen, I have a wife who was born on a farm. Her dad still farms. He got out of the grain business some time ago because it was so costly for him. It became a challenge for him to do that, so he's gone into beef, obviously, and today he's doing quite well.
I want to come back to the comment that Mr. Bennett made with regard to “show us that the pest is in your area and that you need that pesticide”. I get that part of it, but this is a pretty big country. Even just in looking at Saskatchewan, you can see the variations between southern Saskatchewan, central Saskatchewan, and northern Saskatchewan. They can vary in different ways, but farmers will all plant canola, they'll all plant lentils, and, if they can, they'll all plant peas.
What is the challenge in getting different forms of seeds planted in different parts of the province, based on the fact that a farmer would have to try to figure out whether he actually needs that type of seed with that type of pesticide or insecticide? For the farmer himself, that's bringing it right back down to the farmer who's going to plant that in the ground.