There's absolutely an opportunity for that to occur. Again, with Canada being a regulatory role model, its recent policies on plant breeding innovation to clarify how conventional crops are bred, and gene editing and GMOs, all provide opportunities for hardier varieties that can withstand droughts or be more water-efficient and more pest-resistant. That shortens the time by which it takes to get a new variety to market. It used to take 10 years in traditional breeding. If you can introduce gene editing, maybe you can get that down to six or five. That changes your ability to respond to weather patterns. If we can get those varieties out to farmers for them to select what works best on their farm, they have a better chance of weathering the storm that could come their way.
I'm from Prince Edward Island. We don't have a drought. We had a very different situation, but whether it's my cousins who had barns blown down or the amount of rain that fell on the crops they were trying to harvest, it's the same issue. There is a great opportunity for technology to address those issues, but I would come back to the regulatory piece and to being a science-based regulatory leader as much as we're able as a government to allow innovation to thrive.
We want safety first, but then it's how to ensure safety with the least amount of impact on the speed of innovation. It's always safety first, but then it's looking for the quickest route to get that innovation to market in the safest way possible.