Agriculture committee  Tides Canada conforms to the Canada Revenue Agency requirements. We submit advocacy reports. All of that documentation is on record.

Agriculture committee  That's entirely different from the work that we do.

Agriculture committee  I think I know which column you're referring to. I know which issue.

Agriculture committee  Yes. Thank you for asking. This is—

Agriculture committee  I do need to tell you that we actually haven't delayed, no group has delayed, the approval of the golden rice.

Agriculture committee  The facts are that the international rights—

Agriculture committee  I need to provide you with the facts.

Agriculture committee  Vitamin A deficiency is a very serious problem. Over $100 million has been spent developing golden rice. Golden rice is not ready for the market. The International Rice Research Institute, just a few weeks ago, published a statement to clarify and make sure it's understood that g

Agriculture committee  That's right.

Agriculture committee  We would advocate that safety is the priority. So with a weed—

Agriculture committee  —versus a GM food, there's a qualitative difference in terms of the question of—

Agriculture committee  We know that industrial products have an x level of contamination insects in their processing. We accept various contaminations in our food system right now. We have qualitatively different questions that are raised by the application of new technologies like genetic modification

Agriculture committee  Thank you. From the organic sector's point of view, I think the conditions that were proposed would be necessary. They've been needed for a while. This whole issue begs for the implementation of these conditions. Posting incidents of LLP also needs to be established for the Can

Agriculture committee  We grow four genetically modified crops here in Canada. For canola, we could say that the GM trait is going persist into the future. But we have a very important chance to maintain the integrity of the organic sector and evaluate the economic consequences of some GM crops, such a

Agriculture committee  I think zero tolerance could be realistic. It would just be implemented via another policy, which is that if zero tolerance isn't practical in X, Y, and Z cases, then that GM crop is a problem.