Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for being here this afternoon.
Having a global presence in the issues we've been talking about here today is so crucial to the agricultural sector as we move forward and look at new products coming into the market. As we as a country are exporting around the world, we want to make sure that we always have market access and that we see non-tariff trade barriers like items of low-level presence being used to prevent products from going into the marketplace. It's definitely something we need to address to ensure globally that this is not allowed to happen.
One of the things that one of the speakers in the previous panel talked about was the systems used here in Canada being science based, and how to go about deciding whether this product is safe to use and whether it would be allowed in Canada. Do you see the need for any political involvement in deciding whether or not that product should be allowed into Canada?