Right, thank you. It is a very serious issue.
We have the federal authorities in place that do very rigorous testing, monitoring, and assessments before any of these products are released for commercial use. Those tools, like pesticides for example, are used by farmers. That's what helps them to grow these crops we make food from.
With all the science-based backing of all the approval process we have, Canada is a first-rate nation when it comes to relying on that at the national level. What we're worried about is that we see an undermining of that occurring at the provincial level when local pesticide bans are put on for no good reason in terms of science. If there is a problem, everyone is aware of it and more studies kick in. What we're finding is happening more and more is the politicization at the provincial level or the municipal level to go against the science and put a ban in place where there is no scientific rationale for it.
What we're worried about is that it's starting to undermine the credibility of our federal science-based system, and that's the wrong direction to be going.