My understanding from talking to other beekeepers in the west is that they didn't seem to have the same acute episode last year that we had in the eastern part of the country, if you will. So it's interesting and perhaps somebody should be doing a study of what else is happening when it comes to some of this stuff.
But you were asked a question about independent research and I took the liberty of looking at your references in your document, which is called “Pollinator Protection: Reducing Risk from Treated Seed”, dated April 8 of this year. I did a quick check through your references. There's nothing wrong with the references you're using. These are peer-reviewed documents given at different symposiums.
If you could point to one, sir, because as I read them, I didn't see a Canadian one here. They all look like European...in fact I believe they're all European. There isn't a Canadian reference document here at all. It's the ESA, which is the European Seed Association. It's the EU. It's things in the Netherlands, things done in Germany, but nothing done in this country.
I'm not saying that we can't use things from other places to talk about what happened, but would it not be appropriate if we had some independent study that's actually Canadian-based research that helps us understand if it was a perfect storm of that acute episode we had last year, or was it something all together different?
Would it not be helpful if we were doing that here? I don't necessarily mean PMRA, sir, I just mean in general terms.