Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Chair, actually this is really interesting. This morning I had a clipping come across my desk. The EU is now going to accept a 0.1% low-level presence in feed grains, so we're already starting to see the results of our committee work in talking about low-level presence. I really want to commend the minister and the staff for working with the EU to get a low-level presence that's actually going to help our guys out.
I want to go back to the biotechnology study. We get into conflict over GMOs, and I find that really frustrating, because GMOs are just one finger in the spoke. I understand there are issues around certain crops such as alfalfa, or whatever, and everything else, but in the biotech sector--and I think everybody needs to understand this--there's the regulatory approval process they have to go through, and then there's the registration process through which the variety gets registered and actually gets grown.
I find it interesting. The alfalfa might go through the regulatory process, but then it will have to go through the varietal registration process. That's when everything will come out in terms of market acceptance, what varieties will be acceptable, and that whole end of it. That's where we'll see the debate that we saw in wheat when we decided not to go down the course of GMO wheat.
I don't want everybody to get out of control, saying that just because alfalfa has been approved through the regulatory process, it's going to be planted next week somewhere in Canada. If they grow it in the U.S., we can't control that. The U.S. will do what the U.S. does. That's the way it is, so we'll go from there.
One thing I want to look at is that I think the biotech sector offers a lot of answers to the GMO type of crop breeding. There are other types of breeding using genetics or genomics, and we can go there. What do we do to encourage these types of breedings in these types of sectors to grow?
Steve, you talked about raising capital and flow-through shares. Do you have any other ideas about what we could do to help your sector grow? We need that sector to grow. What are the barriers limiting your growth right now?