Agriculture committee  Science recognizes that there's a difference between genetically modified foods and other foods. We have a novel food category that includes GMOs and others.

Agriculture committee  No, our government and principles of sound science have been used to say that a particular GM canola is safe, a particular GM soy is safe, but not to say that GMOs are safe. It says we have some science—

Agriculture committee  It's particular to each crop and each food, which is why—

Agriculture committee  —by another country?

Agriculture committee  It doesn't matter what I say about it; it matters what our export markets have to say about it.

Agriculture committee  We would say that Health Canada's existing approval process is inadequate, that there's been no independent science done, that there's no transparency—

Agriculture committee  No, I was talking about transparency and independent science, which is different.

Agriculture committee  No, I'm telling you our view of the regulatory system in Canada, which you asked about. Our evaluation is that it's inadequate.

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  That's right.

Agriculture committee  Yes, so we're not—