I'm absolutely supportive of it.
The problem I'm having is that every time we try to make some progress in agriculture we have to fight like hell for it. As with Bill C-474, we have to fight, fight, fight to do something so simple as what I did in my raspberry patch to have a second income on the farm. Before I even decided to plant in I did a market survey to find out what was out there. This is just common business practice. And then you put your Bill C-474 out there and you are opposed, and opposed, and opposed on it. This is common business sense. We're supposed to be running our farms like businesses, and this is a common business move. And where is the mentality in the government to oppose that? It doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.
We know people are having a very hard time globally with genetically modified products; they're rejecting it. Would it not make sense to do a business analysis before we automatically start growing it?
I know that in the case of canola it's very difficult to find non-genetically-modified canola seeds, because as they keep introducing their variety from Monsanto they're deregulating the stuff that they're not going to get paid on. And the world is saying we don't want genetically modified food; we don't know what the long-term implication of it is. So your bill made total sense. Why was it so adamantly opposed? It's annoying.