Agriculture committee  We're working this through with OECD countries currently, the regulators, but there is a strong interest from other countries, participating more in OECD, such as China, India, and Brazil. So we expect it will expand to those countries in one form or another over the next few yea

Agriculture committee  It is moving forward through the OECD and Codex.

Agriculture committee  I'll just add to that. I am aware of at least two manufacturers of products who are actually taking steps to make their Canadian products equivalent to their U.S. products to facilitate their applicability to the GROU program or to make NAFTA labels possible. So there are some ma

Agriculture committee  I wouldn't want to bet my life that the registration exists for that cyanide, but there has historically been a cyanide-based product primarily for use in coyote control.

Agriculture committee  That's correct. Typically these kinds of products, such as this cyanide product for coyote control--there's a long name, a sodium monofluoroacetate type of product--are restricted-class products that almost certainly must have a provincial permit for use or be part of a provincia

Agriculture committee  That's correct.

Agriculture committee  That's correct.

Agriculture committee  No, I don't have a specific timeframe. It depends on the nature of the product that is in submission and when we'll be able to make a review decision on it. I expect that, through 2008, at least a couple more of those will be completed, but I wouldn't want to give you a....

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  None have made it through yet.

Agriculture committee  I don't think that's very easy to quantify. I know it's a very significant number of products available to you as producers. Canada, especially in the area of minor use pesticides, is not a big market. There are a lot of manufacturers in the United States that for business reaso

Agriculture committee  I don't have the numbers, but there is a whole series of new chemical submissions that have come in since we began implementation in July.

Agriculture committee  Through the global joint reviews, we have already spoken to some of the advantages we see to doing those from the standpoint of allowing our growers to gain access to some of these new chemistries in a similar timeframe. The other very important aspect of this is that because we'

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. Certainly among OECD countries, it levels the playing field in terms of the kinds of tools that producers have and also in terms of the export markets they would like to enter into. Those countries have already assessed that chemical as well, and ideally if we're wor

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. I wanted to quickly point to a comment you made earlier about our working with grower associations with Canada. Another interesting outcome is that we believe that we have facilitated, at least to a small degree, the relationships between grower associations in Canad