I just want to take up the low-level presence. The government wants to allow 0.1% or higher of our food being contaminated with genetically modified foods that have not been approved by Health Canada for safe human consumption. In other words, these foods would have been approved somewhere else, which might have different safety standards, but would not have been evaluated by our own regulators. So I don't understand why, for example, the canola industry would be calling for low-level presence, since you have a market. Obviously an overwhelming majority of canola is genetically modified. You have markets. Either it's acceptable in another country or it's not. So why would you even be considering or calling for a low-level presence when you already have the presence and you have the markets? I don't quite understand that.
On November 22nd, 2011. See this statement in context.