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Agriculture committee The basis of the U.S. system is similar. They are a science-based system—and Ian could speak to this. It does tend to be a bit faster in the United States now. It's up in the air as to where that's going because in the U.S., they are now questioning how they are going to regulate
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dennis Prouse
Agriculture committee There is no question that ambitious goals have been set out. We saw them in budget 2017, and we hear them talked about. What we've said is that we need a regulatory system that is flexible enough to provide new tools to farmers. There won't be that expansion without a regulatory
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dennis Prouse
Agriculture committee Yes, that is correct. We need change and reform in our regulatory system if we want to realize those goals, because they're exceptionally ambitious. We're talking about trying to take Canada from number five in the world to number two. That's a tremendous goal, and we're excited
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dennis Prouse
Agriculture committee Over to you, Ian.
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dennis Prouse
Agriculture committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. We appreciate the invitation today. With me is my colleague Ian Affleck, our executive director of plant biotechnology for CropLife Canada. Although many aspects of the plant science industry have evolved since we were first established in 1952, our main pu
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dennis Prouse
Agriculture committee I think the key term there is “peer-reviewed”. The agencies themselves are looking at peer-reviewed science. You're absolutely right that in the daily bombard of social media, we're hit with a number of studies of varying quality. The good news is that we have regulatory agencies
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Dennis Prouse
Agriculture committee It's making value judgments. Generally, we look to the food policy in the same way the government is approaching the NAFTA talks: first, do no harm. We just want to make sure that a food policy isn't giving a nod to one particular sector over another. If you allow agriculture to
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Dennis Prouse
Agriculture committee We would respectfully disagree. There's a market for everyone. No one is out there trying to denigrate one particular group or the other. What we're saying is that we don't want to see a nod to one group over the other, because that would harm growth. It would harm innovation. It
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Dennis Prouse
Agriculture committee Yes, and that's been a huge focus of ours the last number of years. We recognized a few years ago that, frankly, the industry had fallen behind on that. We hadn't done a good enough job educating the public and talking to them. We're not going to have large numbers of people co
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Dennis Prouse
Agriculture committee I guess one of our ongoing questions when we have looked at this is how much of this is agricultural policy versus social policy? That's obviously a question that everyone will have to wrestle with. We obviously can't speak to social policy; we can speak to the agricultural polic
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Dennis Prouse
Agriculture committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. On behalf of CropLife Canada and our member companies, I will say that we very much appreciate the invitation to appear today. CropLife Canada is the trade association representing the manufacturers, developers, and distributors of plant science innovation
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Dennis Prouse
Finance committee As I say, right now they look somewhat siloed. Here's the government talking about the Barton report, and there's discussion on innovation. In the meantime, there are regulatory agencies that aren't seized with it. What we want is for this to be written into their mandate. To g
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Dennis Prouse
Finance committee Absolutely. A great deal of the research that is going on now is towards new consumer traits. In the first generation, if you will, of biotechnology it was about higher yields. The industry did a great job on that. Now what you're seeing...of course in your region you would pro
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Dennis Prouse
Finance committee The second wave of innovation, if you will, is going to be that more consumer-focused kind of innovation.
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Dennis Prouse
Finance committee The question now is what kind of a regulatory environment do we have that's going to allow that to be commercialized quickly. Is that innovation going to come to Canada or is it going to go elsewhere? Obviously we would vastly prefer to see it in Canada.
September 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Dennis Prouse