Our experience was when the European Union announced its decision on the neonicotinoids. We contacted the PMRA and asked them why Canada was not doing the same thing. When Mr. Aucoin was here, he said that they work with Europe and United States. Well, they do, until Europe makes a different decision, and then they turn away.
I was told that this neonicotinoid problem was isolated to a small area in southern Ontario and to a few isolated incidents because of the particular weather situation in 2012 and that this was the only problem; there were no other problems. But I very soon discovered that there are close to 1,000 studies around the world, all of them suggesting that we need greater restrictions on neonicotinoids.