Time isn't going to allow me to ask all of my questions, but I'm going to begin.
The matter was already touched on: who's driving the agenda?
A number of years ago, about ten years ago, in fact, rBST was at the top of the agenda for Monsanto, and perhaps other companies, but particularly Monsanto, for the dairy industry. To my best recollection, it wasn't the dairy industry—and we have the dairy people later this afternoon—that was driving the need for rBST but rather it was more the interest of Monsanto in profiteering in a drug product.
We talk about safe food. We talk about science that allows us to develop products. I guess the question is, are we developing new products? That's really where it should be at. Are we more interested in traits? But I guess the question would be, when we see what's happening in the pharmaceuticals, where we're creating products to aid and abet people's health but in fact we're really killing people.... And I know I can say that. You probably can't say that, but it's quite proven in many cases where people have ingested or have been given the wrong drugs. Just recently in the papers, in the last few days, a lady has been known to have died because she was given the wrong drugs. Most people today are using some form of drug and in many cases require another drug to overcome some of the harmful effects of the first drug.
We spend a lot of time and we spend a lot of money. Our health care costs are humongous because we've gone down that road. Yet on food safety, we are so careful. And we know that Canada has the safest food supply. How much of our scientific effort is being put into the area of creating safe food, when in fact that should not be where the impetus is? Rather, it should be on creating new products with traits, perhaps, where we develop and can develop niche markets. We've gone down that road, and I think there isn't anyone here who would doubt the safety of our food supply in this country.