In his opening statement, Rick mentioned maximum residue levels. This is the measurement of residues of pesticides used in growing a crop. There are maximum permissible levels of residues on seeds exported to foreign countries and those are established by regulators in those countries.
The challenge there is that sometimes that can take a very long time. You may have a product available to the Canadian farmer that makes the farmer more competitive. It helps them grow a crop at less cost and helps control weeds. It gives agronomic advantages. That product has to be safety assessed and approved in an export market before you can ship there, which means that the producer in Canada doesn't have access to that new, innovative technology until it's approved in another market. One of the goals we're looking for in our trade negotiations, including the TPP, is an ability to have more timely approvals and to have the countries, the scientists of the countries, working more closely together on the approval process to make that process more efficient.
Science is science. Science done in Canada should be the same as science done in one of those export markets. If they can pull together and make these products available to the farmer more quickly, it will make the Canadian producer more competitive in international markets. That's one example, sir.