I have just a final question.
My bill, Bill C-474, sounds like a very simple bill. It looks at what effect the potential economic impact will have on farmers if we introduce more GE crops.
As I understand it, the main argument against it is that it's not science-based, that it's going to stifle innovation.
We had the potential release of GE wheat, I guess in the nineties, and the reason that it wasn't released was because there was an outcry by farmers. One of the reasons was that they figured their markets would have been stopped.
That didn't stop us from continuing science and innovation. We're still moving. We have cutting-edge technology in this country even though this look at the market there stopped GE wheat.
My question is that if the markets were to say that we should not be introducing GE alfalfa now, or GE wheat, how would that stop science innovation in our country? It would seem to me that it would still continue going along, in spite of the fact that we may have protected farmers in these two areas.