There are 3,000 beekeepers in Ontario. Like anything, you would have to ask for their personal reasons. Some people take their time to inform themselves about particular situations and others do not.
Often, we find beekeepers are in places in Ontario where they are not very agriculturally intensive and they may not have problems with their bees. They may not have high overwintering losses or in-season losses, so they may not have reason to become part of that lawsuit as they have not suffered losses.
It's going to depend from person to person as to why they would take part or would not take part in a lawsuit like that.
Again, I always revert to trying to keep the conversation around the need to adjust those incredibly big differentials between where there's a need and where there isn't. We understand farmers need to use pesticides. We would like them to use them where they need them and not use them where they don't. We as beekeepers try to do that as well, controlling varroa mites in our colonies.
Back to your issue regarding seed, I certainly wouldn't ask that they increase the cost of a treated seed, but obviously, it must cost money to treat a seed, and it should cost less money to buy untreated seed, one would assume.