The question is very pertinent. If you've heard of CRISPR technology and gene editing, it's the new scientific discussion being talked about now, but in agriculture it's the here and now. Certainly we've had a lot of genetic engineering over the years to make better and more resilient crops, but now, with the promise of gene editing, this can happen much faster and is much less expensive, so the entrants can be smaller companies, public breeders and universities, not just the larger multinationals that have typically been the founders of the gene technologies up till now.
That's a very promising technology, but again, the regulatory environment that I mentioned in my remarks is really critical, because we've been working for seven years, paving the way for gene editing so that CFIA and Health Canada can accept a submission and know how to approve and regulate it. That's the part I think we really need a collective, whole-of-government approach on. If we want Canada to be at the forefront of innovations and some of these technologies, including drought-tolerant crops, crops that are better adapted to some of the climate stressors we have, and short-stature crops that are more resilient to wind—there are all kinds of innovations—we have to make sure our regulatory environment enables those products. Part of the work we do, really, is to create that environment for our members.