I'll start with your second question. Of course, I'll certainly advocate for Canada as a country in which we have all kinds of innovation taking place. I lived in France for a number of years and it is extremely progressive on the science side, although it doesn't always find its way into the marketplace. We have to ensure that we draw a distinction between those two scenarios. My colleague on the panel today mentioned applied science and the idea of taking things that we can get into the hands of growers. There's a role for pure research and it's absolutely paramount because it underpins what we do, but at some point we also have to be able to transfer that technology into the hands of the growers in a tool that they're able to use and they're able to benefit from.
The other comment is about duplicity. Duplicity often comes through a lack of coordination between various departments or various ministries across the government. I'm sometimes challenged by the sheer size in navigating my way around Bayer. I don't know what it would be like to try to navigate my way around government, but too often we have instances where the right hand and the left hand don't seem to be communicating. I'll use the neonicotinoid example. Right now we have one branch that seems to be looking at alternatives to neonicotinoids, and at the same time, another branch that is looking to take away the very products that are identified as alternatives. That puts industry in a very difficult position, and more importantly, it puts our customer, the grower, in an extraordinarily difficult position because losing one tool is challenging enough, but losing the alternatives to that tool is even more challenging.
Another one that is just finally coming to an end after nearly eight years is Environment Canada coming to us with regulation around plant pathogens and how we're able to use them in research. The Agriculture Canada researchers who were using these very pathogens themselves were unaware of what was coming. Eight years later, we finally have a resolution in place. A lot of it is ensuring that communication across sectors; a sectoral approach to regulation is critically important.