Health committee  I would just add that I think this is one of the things industry does really well. The Canola Council of Canada, for example, in the case of canola, has lots of agronomists on staff. So if you're not a big farmer, if you're a small farmer and you need the advice, you can go to th

Health committee  That's a complicated question, and I don't think anybody has the complete answer to that yet. A huge number of factors affect bee health—habitat loss, parasites, diseases of bees, management of hives, and pesticides play a role in acute deaths—but I don't think we actually have a

Health committee  —but certainly we're not seeing that in canola.

Health committee  We haven't really seen any problems in canola. The seeding methods are totally different. The canola's seeded at a depth with a vacuum seeder that goes right into the ground: there's never any dust. Canola seeds are extremely small, maybe double the size of a poppy seed, and we

Health committee  Sure. The canola growers are one of the organizations that do manage what's called the GROU process, the grower own use process, and we're actively involved in setting up the system now for how we manage data protection and other things like that for the generic registration.

Health committee  In terms of the tolerance levels I might defer to the CropLife chemistry guy beside me. In general that's one of the things we rely on, seed developers and pesticide companies, to develop new technologies that are more effective and so that when we do run into problems of any h

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, we thank you for the opportunity to be invited here today to speak to you about the review of the Pest Control Products Act. The Canadian Canola Growers Association represents 43,000 canola growers. We are governed b

International Trade committee  Yes, the quality of the jobs that we'll see with this agreement will be much more stable. There will be increases in the primary sector, but there will also be increases in investment. If we work through some of these non-tariff barriers in the agreement on biotechnology, then we

International Trade committee  In the European Union, the regulatory process is extremely slow. Even once the European Food Safety Authority has given a positive opinion on a particular trait that we're trying to get approved in the EU, it can take another two or more years for countries to adopt it and for it

International Trade committee  First of all, I don't have a jobs number. I think what we've been looking at more are the quality and the stability of the jobs you get from the long-term increase in trade. Most of the jobs in the canola industry go across the value chain. There are a lot of farming jobs, of cou

International Trade committee  Sure.

International Trade committee  Well, that's a very big question. I might take the opportunity to give you a much longer briefing in writing, if I can. All I'll say is that I think the GMO technology debate is really one that's going to happen over a long period of time. It's going to be science based. It's goi

International Trade committee  Well, I think I alluded to it before. Whenever you sign a new trade deal, there are a lot of things you have to do domestically to be ready for that deal. Infrastructure and institutions are two things that always need to come together to capture the benefits of those deals. We

International Trade committee  A couple of things, which actually goes to some of the issues Mr. Curtis was just talking about. Modern agriculture, and certainly canola, has been a growing presence in what I would call research development and innovation. I mean, the whole GMO move to technology present in the

International Trade committee  It’s Mrs.