Of course that is something that our entire sector is very actively pursuing. Last year your bill failed to evaluate the economic impact that GM would have—on all sectors: you don't have to be organic to be affected by GM contamination in potential markets. Certainly alfalfa is, as I mentioned in my address to you, of heightened concern, because it is such a small seed and the pollinators that are required to activate it can travel something like 12 kilometres. We don't really have a system here in Canada to know whether your neighbours are using it or are not using it, and so one of the concerns is that you really don't know where that cross-contamination may come from. And because it's such a small seed and a perennial seed, it's not something that's going to be frost-killed in one season, if you realize that there's alfalfa growing in your field and you didn't plant it—if you were even going that far in detail.
In our consumer markets, one of our promises to the consumer is that by choosing organic products you are avoiding GM content. We have already put in place a system that mitigates that. This is what our producers have done—and our processors. We already do testing; as I said, we plant buffer zones; we get letters from neighbours saying that they are not growing.... For example, in P.E.I. there is a lot of non-GMO canola for the Japanese market. It's not organic.