Under projects like 914, nobody is paying submission fees. In order to help Canadian growers--and a number of times we've been in front of this committee, and they've supported the use of taxpayers' dollars this way--we said we would do something of our initiative to look at these kinds of products. That's when we said it's very compatible with our mandate to look at newer products, when there is no question that, from a science perspective, scientists in all regulatory areas around the world agree that the newer products are better for the environment and better for human health and safety. When farmers first brought us the list of their interests, there were thousands of uses they were interested in. We said we could not use our resources in a responsible way, going back to older products that are generally thought to be more of a concern for human health and safety. If a registrant wants to make a submission of an older product, we have to look at it, and we would look at it, but they would pay.
On January 29th, 2008. See this statement in context.