Health committee  Well, it comes from polling. We polled on it, and that's what we were told.

Health committee  We have donors, and [Technical difficulty—Editor]

Health committee  Not one cent. No.

Health committee  We have donors. [Inaudible—Editor] ...with a budget.

Health committee  Good afternoon, and thank you for having me here today. I appreciate it. My name is Bruce Cran, and I'm the president of the Consumers' Association of Canada. The CAC has been advocating for consumers for the last 70 years, having been founded in 1947. We are Canada's oldest an

Agriculture committee  Yes. The States uses it on chicken and I think hamburger as well. It's been used on things like mangoes and herbs and what have you for the last 30 or 40 years. I can remember—it would have to be 30 years ago—my organization was against irradiation because in those days they used

Agriculture committee  I'm not sure I can answer that. We've been involved in setting up those programs over the years. I'd say it would have much more value to someone who was eating beef because of the very severe problems with mad cow disease than it would with fish or something of that type. We ge

Agriculture committee  With your last question first, I have no idea why we're not using it. We've just conducted a large survey, which we'll probably release in the next few weeks, about whether Canadians would like to see irradiation. There was enough response. I think there were well over 50% of peo

Agriculture committee  It's been our observation that people who want organic food are looking for something they don't get. Originally, you're supposed to have more vitamins and what have you. If, for instance, you saw a pear or an apple that was grown purely organically, you probably wouldn't want to

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members. You've got me all nervous now.

Agriculture committee  The one thing we do have is consumers, and I represent consumers and nothing but.

Agriculture committee  It's getting to the stage where I want a beer, never mind the water.

Agriculture committee  My organization began in 1947; therefore, we've been making presentations to the House for 65 years. I'd just like to start by making a comment on Growing Forward—I don't know whether they call it Growing Forward 1, or whatever it is, but Growing Forward as opposed to Growing F