Agriculture committee  We met in Washington three weeks ago with our U.S. EPA colleagues and with grower organizations, both from Canada and the United States, and with some of the major CropLife representatives there. It was only three weeks ago that we really started to get some candidates to look cl

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  The fact that it came later is typically the problem.

Agriculture committee  In terms of the timelines you spoke to earlier—Canada's timelines for a brand-new active ingredient, a brand-new chemical—we have a review period of about 18 months, which is our standard review time for a conventional chemical. That would compare with Australia's, which is 14 mo

Agriculture committee  The actual registration cost, the fees associated with the Canadian registration, relative to the United States is much less than half the cost of a U.S. registration.

Agriculture committee  That's actually something we hear quite often, that it takes longer in Canada than in the United States, but typically what it means is that it has actually come to Canada later than it has come to the United States. Given the economic situation--the small Canadian market--the bi

Agriculture committee  With respect to the technology gap, and I think that's of very much interest to you, we're really taking two approaches. We do have a bit of a retrospective approach. We do recognize that there's some significant catch-up to do in terms of the kinds of registration approvals avai

Agriculture committee  No, thank you.