I can't speak at all to growth hormones or anything of that nature.
Canada has regulations in place with respect to genetic modification, and the approval process for GMs has regulations in place for food safety and so on, so I don't see those compromised by a trade agreement.
Canada follows a very robust approval process for genetic modification. Canada follows the accepted international Codex risk safety guidelines, and the approach is a science-based process. It takes roughly two years to go through. The genetically modified product is looked at by Health Canada for human health, by CFIA for animal health, and by Environment Canada for its impact on the environment. It's a very science-based process and has no political implications to it.
A product that is approved in Canada is approved for import into Canada. Canada has a zero-tolerance process. If a product is not approved by our Canadian scientists, it's not allowed to be imported in any form into Canada, much like some other countries have done. In fact, Canada's system is a very broad system. It's actually based on novel traits. They look at the product that results from the process, and not the process itself. It's quite unique and very broad, so any product that changes, that introduces a novel factor to the food or the feed, is captured by the novel trait guidelines that Canada has. It's in fact broader in scope than most other nations.