Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
It's my pleasure to be on this committee today to take part in this debate. I come from Manitoba and there are a lot of bees there. In my own area I have relatives who are in the bee business and certainly have done a lot of research in overwintering way back into the 1970s. Mr. Howard Turnbull was one of them at the Brandon research station, and some of the others have worked over this period of time and kept that family business going up to today in his grandson's hands. This is certainly a concern, bee transportation, bee movement, and of course the diseases that are becoming a great concern.
I want to go back to Mr. Cutler and look at how you see research having a bigger impact on this. Because it's pretty broad, I would maybe open up that question to all our participants.