Thank you, Matthew and Rene, for coming before the committee. I very much appreciated your presentations. They were, frankly, remarkable.
Rene, you spoke of the Danish model and the regulations they have. They clearly identified quickly what their preferences were and what they were prepared to do.
Again, I'm going to make it clear: I eat GM; I understand the argument about GM. But I also very much appreciate and will defend the right to coexistence, so that organics can grow, and grow safely, for lack of a better word, without contamination, to feed the market they prefer to feed.
It seems, though, in Canada that you talk about our taking a default position, basically placing it on the non-GM farmer to make sure their crops remain GM-free, which has made it rather onerous for them.
Is it too late to go back to the Denmark model? Is it too late to introduce regulations? With certain crops you said there may be a zero-tolerance level that could be achieved, whereas with canola there can't be. That has to be acknowledged. Is it too late, or is the toothpaste out of the tube, as I asked one of the previous witnesses? Is it too late to go back?