Agriculture committee  Yes, there are just two things. One, I hope we can be clear that we're talking about GM in agriculture and not industrial biotechnology. That's very important here. Two, there's a good paper by Thijs Tollenaar and Liz Lee put out on cross-science in 2007 that is a detailed analy

Agriculture committee  If I could comment a little, the first thing is I don't think it's two solitudes, to begin with. There's a lot of pragmatism in this issue. I think when we saw the concerns around potential introduction of GE wheat in western Canada, what you had was farmers who loved their Round

Agriculture committee  I think we have to think very carefully about what we say when we say that. I think we would want to hold the option for low-level presence where we think it's okay, because we want to maintain the efficacy of our regulatory system, and we want to maintain our right to our own re

Agriculture committee  Again, it depends. What I will say is that if we produce something on a commercial scale, maintaining a zero is probably not realistic. I think the supply chain would agree with that. It's difficult in a broad landscape.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. My name is Rene Van Acker. I'm a professor in the Department of Plant Agriculture and associate dean of the Ontario Agricultural College at the University of Guelph, Canada. I thank the committee for the opportunity. I was also previously a professor of wee