Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's good to be here.
Thanks, gentlemen.
It's quite obvious from our witnesses, and I'm aware of it in my riding—I am a farmer and I have had honeybee hives on a couple of my properties—that everything out there points to something, whether it's the seed coating or spray that's on corn. At the same time, we have a problem there, but is there actually science that points specifically to that?
You mentioned a number of things. Research is done, of course, by the chemical companies and what have you. What kind of peer review does Health Canada or somebody on behalf of Health Canada do to make sure all that research is valid? Is that research independent to a degree?
I'd like you talk a little bit more, if you could, about seed coating. Is it just about the product? Is it how they coat the seed? I'll let you answer those two, if you could.