Anyway, folks, that was just to set the record straight.
This is an extremely serious issue in terms of trust. I'm from Prince Edward Island. We are selling an increasing number of products to Japan, and one of the great difficulties in that marketplace is that they want absolute assurance that it's GMO-free, for their public's reasons, whatever they may be. I think our people who are in the industry that ship GMO-free products to Japan are certainly very concerned when another GMO product of a completely different crop comes in and starts to be produced, because of the impact it could have on that market.
I think the key—I believe it was Mr. Arnold who said it—to the future here is all about trust. This relates to transparency a great deal. What has to be done to make the system more transparent so that trust can develop? That trust isn't there right now.
Part of it is related to big companies. I actually led the fight against rBGH in terms of Monsanto's injection of the product into dairy cows to produce more milk. The only one that was going to gain from that was Monsanto, certainly not the cow and certainly not the Canadian dairy industry. I think there are good GMOs and bad GMOs. Some work in some countries; some don't in others.
What do we have to do to achieve that trust, which relates to transparency?