From our organization's perspective, it's important that Canadian producers have access to all the tools in the tool box. As we approach our standards-making authority and the work that we do, it's very much agnostic to that.
It's about providing an enabling framework. We have been a participant around the table, but we are not active participants, so I wouldn't be able to comment on that.
At the Seed Growers' Association, we have a lot of transparency measures in place. Right now, we are piloting digital seed tags. The mark of our sector is this blue tag, and the blue tag hasn't changed a lot in 120 years. Sometimes it's handwritten, and sometimes it's a dot matrix. What we've done is embed a QR code into them so that the end-user can scan them and get more insights into how that variety was produced, such as if it is a genetic variety or a GMO. That's all possible in the future. We're piloting that to be able to respond to certain segments that want that additional transparency in their seed purchases.
