Earlier this week I had a phone conversation with Glyn Chancey, who's with the Canadian Seed Growers' Association. We were talking about seed technology and genome mapping. He really underlined that because Canada has such a high dependence on export markets, it really needs to take the lead on this issue. I think he cited France and Portugal, as two countries that are really forward-looking in this particular issue and are really seizing the opportunities. He was concerned that because we're so reliant on export markets we might be losing out on that.
I'm wondering if your department has looked at what France and Portugal are doing. Is there any comparison you're doing of that with what Canada is doing? Do you maybe have some designs to implement those kinds of policies?