Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank the two witnesses for their presentations.
Mr. Butler, you mentioned in your presentation earlier that an article came out on May 20, in which the provincial Minister of Fisheries, Keith Colwell, said, “We’re more interested in making sure we protect what we have. Until someone can prove to us and to the public that this will be a good idea—and I don’t see much support anywhere for this—we’re not interested.”
Later on in the article it goes on to talk with Kirk Havercroft, CEO of Queen's County-based farming operation, Sustainable Blue. They're worried about branding. They're worrying about people getting confused and mistaking their products for genetically modified salmon because there are no regulations in Canada mandating GMOs to be labelled. They are talking about consumers and Canadians interested in having genetically modified labelling.
You also mentioned previously that there were no consultations with the public, with producers and, particularly, First Nations.
Can you explain why at this point it would be important to hold these kinds of consultations with Canadians?