Thank you, Chair. I always appreciate the time you do give me to speak. It's never long enough, but it never will be, so I think you understand that.
I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about agriculture issues and talk about the excitement around the agriculture sector right now. I think you can see where I'm going with this.
In rural Canada right now, there's lots of excitement because the long-gun registry is going to be disappearing fairly quick. I have a lot of people who are excited. Of course, the freedom to farm, with the Canadian Wheat Board changes, is bringing about a whole pile of excitement too.
But I think we need to talk about moving forward. These things are going to happen. It's there, it's going to happen, so what we need to talk about now is the environment that we're going to be in once these changes are done. It's not so much the long-gun registry--I think that's pretty simple--but it's the Canadian Wheat Board. That goes into the whole plant breeding and research side of things.
You made the comment on how much money is being spent in canola, beans, and corn, but not a lot of money is being spent in malt barley, barley, feed barley, durum, or wheat. Now, if you talk to a person like Dr. Fowler at the University of Saskatchewan here, a very famous plant breeder in winter wheat...who has more varieties registered outside of Canada because we wouldn't register them in Canada.
You talked about more funding for public research. What about the regulatory side of things? Do we need to relook at how we go through the approval process for new varieties to come into the market?
Maybe I'll start with you, Todd, and then work our way through.