As I was saying earlier, GMOs have been on the market for 20 years. The Canadian government spends enormous sums to try to convince people that these products are safe, but it still isn't working. Health Canada published a survey recently and its results were sent to the committee two weeks ago. People have overall doubts about the safety of GMOs. This is also why this committee was created.
Transparency is important when it comes to scientific studies. We would like to see more money allocated to Health Canada so that the department can do its own studies. If we tell consumers—as is the case currently—that most of the studies are conducted by industry—not all of them, but the majority of them—it is difficult for the consumer to trust these products, because they know that the organization that conducts the studies is the organization that wants to sell them. So there is a great lack of trust.
Moreover, how can we ask a consumer to trust a product when the objective of these companies is to hide the content of these products, since they don't want to label them? You can't ask someone to trust a product when the information about it is hidden. Labelling is also important and needs to be put in place.