Agriculture committee  The assessment was done on the glyphosate and not on the GMO as such. We wanted to use this chart to show the presence of glyphosate in the waterways compared to what it was previously. In 2002, there was a low concentration. It has increased since then. In 2010, the concentratio

Agriculture committee  We trust independent studies, which are unfortunately not recognized by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency or Health Canada. Evidence of that is the complaint we submitted to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency regarding the fact that a genetically modified product crosses the a

Agriculture committee  To answer your last question, I would say that the answer is no. The impact studies have not been properly conducted. No studies have been done. We rely on what the companies give us. I have proof of that because the Minister of Health wrote to us and said that she was waiting fo

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Lemieux. Your question has two parts. The first has to do with science. Science can be verified. And since that is true, it must be demonstrated to the public. And yet, all the research conducted by GMO companies is kept secret. It cannot be verified. A great many

Agriculture committee  I am convinced they would be just as open if they were to have a canola field with GM corn growing in the canola field or the soybean field. You will understand the reality if a certain level of tolerance is allowed as far as other products go. In the case of a weed, an organic f

Agriculture committee  Somewhere between 800 and 900 members.

Agriculture committee  We provided a short statement that read: “If they can be detected, why not label them?” That was our submission.

Agriculture committee  We were consulted and our only comment was this: “If they can be detected, why not label them?”

Agriculture committee  It will have a huge impact on the organic industry. Take flaxseed as an example. If you import grain with a GMO content of just 0.1%, contamination will span the entire country. We looked at canola, and it took 6 years for it to become contaminated. In the case of flaxseed, whic

Agriculture committee  Permanently.

Agriculture committee  There is no labelling. How will we know for sure that the content is 0.1% or 0.2% without any labelling? Europe has a GMO labelling system. Europe decreased its GMO concentration in imported seed grains from 50% to nearly 0%. European countries have maintained a zero tolerance as

Agriculture committee  In 1996, Canada authorized transgenic canola, and seven years later, in 2003, no accreditation for organic canola was granted in Canada. How did a seed that had only been an LLP become invasive in only seven years? The case of organic flaxseed is even more striking. Transgenic f

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. My name is André Nault, President of AmiEs de la Terre de l'Estrie.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for inviting us to participate, especially from Sherbrooke. You saved us nine hours of travel. Thank you kindly. Before we begin,we'd like to tell you that our position has to do with what is going on right now. Our past is the key to our future, and that future is wor

Agriculture committee  Thank you. In 2006, the magazine L'actualité, from Montreal, published a study on a number of local products available at supermarkets. Mr. Dumoulin, the author of that study, conducted it again in 2010. On April 1, 2010, L'actualité published statistics indicating that the amou