Agriculture committee  We continually work with farmer associations that are talking about these issues. One of the first things we need to understand is that across the world, small-scale farmers provide most of the food that's produced and eaten. We produce enough food now to feed 10 billion people,

Agriculture committee  Universities provide some independent research that's necessary to look at all of these questions. We would like to see more engagement from universities on agronomic and economic questions. We think there is a need for reinvestment in public plant-breeding in Canada.

Agriculture committee  Recent work in the United States has actually provided us with some really good studies on the possibility of increased costs, which would be pennies a year per household, a really minimal increased cost. We've looked at why Canadians want GM foods labelled. In 2015, we commissio

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. Merci. There are many steps within the regulatory process that all need more oversight. From seed to table, there needs to be traceability of genetically modified organisms. Even at the experimental research stage, we've seen contamination occur. There defin

Agriculture committee  The question of the use of antibiotics in animals is one that's very relevant to GM animals. In some cases, GM animals are discussed in relation to solving that problem, but we've already heard from other witnesses that management is most often what's turned to, and we already kn

Agriculture committee  Thank you. It's been 20 years now that consistently over 80% of Canadians have said they want labelling. There have been many private members' bills brought forward. There have been opportunities to take up labelling. We do have, as you heard, a voluntary labelling standard. It

Agriculture committee  Thank you. What you've referred to is a summary of some of the results of our report on the question of the benefits and impacts of genetically engineered crops on farmers, including farm income. What we did find is that there's no evidence that the GM traits specifically are

Agriculture committee  No, that's not what I'm saying.

Agriculture committee  The Enviropig was a unique situation because pork producers had invested in that research and then withdrew support. Apple producers—the BC Fruit Growers' Association and the Quebec apple producers' federation— asked the Canadian government not to approve the GM apple because t

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much for the invitation to present. Thank you for taking a look at this issue. We appreciate the opportunity to be before you. I work with the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, also referred to as CBAN, which monitors, researches, and raises various concerns

Agriculture committee  If GM products could work as they are promised to work, then there may be a benefit. We don't see that from vitamin A rice. It does not yet exist.

Agriculture committee  No, thank you. That's fine.

Agriculture committee  Yes, so we're not—

Agriculture committee  You could mail it to either.

Agriculture committee  It would be processed through Tides Canada, as we are a project of Tides Canada. We don't receive funding from Tides; we are a project of Tides.