Certainly. I will not comment on the Ontario bee kill and the research involved there, because that's kind of a separate issue.
On the long-term health and mortality of bees, certainly we need to do some research on weather. As I indicated in my preamble there, this year it appears that, on the whole, bees did very well over the course of the winter. All across Canada, the winter was relatively mild, so that may have had an impact. It could be that management practices have improved enough that beekeepers have been more successful in wintering.
But weather is certainly one key area. Varroa is another one. I think we have to maintain pesticides or treatment methods to stay ahead of the curve. We now have certain treatments that are getting to the stage where we're getting resistance, and we're not having enough new compounds, whether they be organic or non-organic, coming into the mainstream for beekeepers to use in order to be successful.
So you're right; I think the research is important. We'd certainly like to see a lot more, and we'd certainly like to see a lot more that is a little bit more directed to what the beekeepers need instead of what the researchers may need.