Thanks, Randy.
I think the regulatory process is very important to agriculture and to Canada. Obviously, streamlining of regulatory systems around the world, and especially the U.S. and Canada, means the better we can work together. There is so much trade going across the border.
I know the federal Government of Canada can't do this on its own, but we have to push for regulatory approvals that are accepted around the world. CropLife members would certainly agree with this. I mean, they're spending so much money on regulations in every country to do the same thing over and over again to satisfy the small differences in the paper. So I think streamlining regulatory approvals across certainly the U.S. and Canada would be beneficial.
There's also the provinces. We have provincial regulations that are not streamlined either.
The other thing with the regulations is that low-level presence is probably one of the key things hitting agriculture right now. That's a regulatory thing. Zero is not a zero any longer. Zero is too small a number. It can be measured in the billions. A one-billion or two-billion detection level of some kind of a GM event or some other residue or whatnot is really a zero, but other countries in the world have to start recognizing a low-level presence is acceptable so that trade can continue. There's too much money at risk to ship products around the world and get them rejected at a port somewhere because of some small level.
If the government could do anything on regulations, I think it would be to push for international cooperation with the streamlining of regulations, to quit spending this money needlessly around the world reproducing identical results.
And stick to the science. We have to take the political and all that out of it.