Mr. Hepworth, I would like to come back to the issue of choice for farmers. In my riding, 60% of the land is farmland, half of which are organic lands. So when you say that farmers have a choice, that is true, but when the wind blows on their organic fields or when the farmlands are situated alongside a river that floods the fields in the spring, they no longer have a choice. Why? Because the organic product that the farmer wants to sell can no longer be certified as such. Those farmers lose their land. Having a choice is not always a given.
Ms. Sharratt, there is something that I do not understand and which I would like you to explain. Why has Canada backed away from transgenic salmon, claiming that they are dangerous for the wild Atlantic salmon population? There is talk of extinction. What do these salmon do? Do they destroy the DNA of wild fish? Do they destroy their eggs? How do transgenic salmon compare to the wild variety, which is millions of years old?