Excellent.
With climate change, in our pest management strategies it is becoming very much of a challenge to combat what I'm going to call an epidemic right now in Prince Edward Island to our potato industry. It is known as the wireworm.
One thing we all have to understand here is Bud the Spud is the breadwinner at home. The spud represents more than $1 billion worth of GDP to the Prince Edward Island economy annually, and wireworm is costing millions of dollars. We only have two tools in the tool box right now to manage wireworm; PMRA is looking at one of those right now, and it's not looking that promising. That will put the P.E.I. producers in a very vulnerable spot as far as managing this pest that came with climate change is concerned.
My ask to you is, through PMRA, to stay on top of the regulations and approval of the necessary management products and techniques required to deal with pests in an environmentally and economically viable way for producers.