Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you, Alex, for putting forward the bill. I do believe we need a debate on the whole issue of genetically engineered crops. We also need a debate about the amount of control, the rights companies take when they produce a crop. That increasingly seems to be making farmers powerless, in terms of their own production base.
I will admit I have some serious problems with the bill in the fact that it's under the seeds regulations. I do think the issue has to be dealt with, but I don't think this is the right place for it.
My first question—and I'll roll two questions into one—is why use the seeds regulations to try to control genetically engineered products? Two, you did mention in your remarks about GE Triffid, but as I understand it, had Bill C-474—what this bill proposes to do—been in place, it really wouldn't have changed anything with respect to the GE Triffid issue.
Can you answer those two questions?