Agriculture committee  But it's not—

Agriculture committee  The organic farmer keeps it. We pay the costs. We should be the conventional farmer, because we were here first. Conventional agriculture, the chemical farmer, shall we say, has no responsibility other than to worry about the wind, because he could contaminate me, or spray me out, and I could sue him for damages.

Agriculture committee  It's an approved event.

Agriculture committee  I beg to differ with you a little bit. My understanding is that it's an approved event in Canada.

Agriculture committee  I think what I heard is, is it sustainable?

Agriculture committee  No.

Agriculture committee  That's for genetically engineered products. But mutagenesis is different. With that type of plant breeding, it's still soybean genes inserted into soybean genes and propagated.

Agriculture committee  So that type of thing would be allowed, and if it cross-pollinates into my soybeans, that wouldn't be a problem.

Agriculture committee  I don't think I can....

Agriculture committee  Yeah, but I don't—

Agriculture committee  I'm going to throw out a figure: $20 billion. But I don't....

Agriculture committee  I'm concerned that organic agriculture is severely threatened. We lost canola as a crop, and we ate that, basically. We've lost it. It's a big market, and if we had kept canola, and if they had kept that segregation system in place and whatever they could have done with buffer zones, or everything else that could have been done, it would have been highly profitable for my farm to continue growing canola.

Agriculture committee  We'll have coffee after.

Agriculture committee  But we also have our guidelines. And our government has to respect that the consumers decide what they're going to buy.

Agriculture committee  I said--and I hope it was recorded--a moratorium until some of these issues are settled, which is how you prevent the contamination. When we sued Monsanto and Bayer, we didn't sue our fellow farmers, who have a liability issue as well. We sued the patent holders, the owners of the technology, which I think was fair.