Yes, and we understand that population or colony numbers aren't the only measure of bee health, but those numbers are independent, traced by Statistics Canada. They're not our numbers, so they're easily available to anyone in the public. When we look at the numbers that are published every year—and they've been collected since the 1920s—colony numbers in Canada have been steadily increasing. The Canadian Honey Council, which represents beekeepers coast to coast, has affirmed that at the agriculture standing committee on a couple of different occasions, and the numbers from Statistics Canada show that.
In fact, if you look at the latest numbers from 2014 for Ontario, where the bulk of the issue is—as you mentioned, you're hearing it from your constituents—you will see that colony numbers since 2003, when neonicotinoids started to become widely used, have gone up 59%. Honey production varies from year to year. It depends how many producers are into producing honey versus pollination services, so that number varies year to year. On a year-over-year basis, it's gone up close to 30% just on honey production. We can only go by what the numbers are, and these numbers tell us that there isn't the crisis that maybe some your constituents are—