Agriculture committee  In talking to many researchers, public and private, I think the biggest challenge is really twofold: you have to look at Canadian regulations, and you also have to look at international regulations. Canada actually has been doing a very good job, but I think there are efficienc

Agriculture committee  As an industry, we've made a commitment to seeking the approval in all the major countries where a product will be marketed. So for canola, for example, we seek approval in the major markets. We can make a submission at the same time, but if a country doesn't make an approval at

Agriculture committee  A lot of international bodies are working on this. For example, under Codex Alimentarius there's the agricultural biotechnology committee. They've developed a set of guidelines and standards on how to evaluate biotechnology products. They've also developed a low-level presence an

Agriculture committee  I just want to mention that I was at an event that was celebrating a researcher at the University of Saskatchewan who was retiring. He made a comment that when he first came to Saskatchewan, when he drove across the fields, as he drove in he saw black, black, black—summer or fall

Agriculture committee  I'd love to comment on that, because actually just this very week a study came out that had been commissioned by the European Commission. It took a look at over 500 independent research groups that have been involved, and these were not just public, but broader than that. This re

Agriculture committee  I also wanted to comment that surveys have been done. I can point to one in particular that was done by Biotecanada in 2008. It was a broad survey that showed that eight out of ten Canadians actually saw benefits in agricultural biotechnology. As has been brought up several tim