Thank you, Chair.
I wonder if we might suggest to our Library of Parliament folks that they could do some research for us on the public funding of research. We'd have to go back 25 years, because I think it was in 1996 or so that we went to matched funding. We'd need the comparison between public research, private research, and the combination of the two in Canada back over 25 years, vis-à-vis that in the United States and maybe some other country, just so we'd have some data to work from.
We're growing canola on P.E.I. now too, and it's a non-GM canola. We have a premium market in Japan, which allows both GM canola and non-GM canola. The company that imports this product is very fussy. They come over to P.E.I. and inspect whether there's potential for contamination from GM canola and so on.
That brings up the issue of labelling. I forget who it was, but somebody mentioned it earlier. If they weren't labelling GM products in Japan, we wouldn't be in that market. That's for sure.
Where are you folks on labelling? It's a controversial issue.