Agriculture committee  Thank you.

Agriculture committee  Who do we send it to?

Agriculture committee  If I can give you a quick story, if you don't mind, Mr. Miller. We sell all our honey at markets. We go to three different markets. We take great pride in selling something from a family operation. We go to Keady Market, we go to St. Jacobs Market, and we go to Kitchener Market.

Agriculture committee  You're allowed so much.... I don't have the documentation here with me right now, but I'm just giving you a bit of history here. What happened was that it was a chemical that's used in pigs and animals—hormones to make them grow faster. I just don't remember the name right now. A

Agriculture committee  No. It's a basic legal limit you can have in your honey.

Agriculture committee  Basically, because I work for OMAFRA, they often train their workers on me. They always take samples and they train them. They have to go all through the summer with students to take samples, so my honey is regularly checked more than a lot of peoples' honey. That was just as an

Agriculture committee  We're from Hanover.

Agriculture committee  We want to see this chemical banned. I have difficulty saying the name. It's so long—neonicotinoids. We want to see it banned. We really do.

Agriculture committee  We want to see it banned like it is in Europe.

Agriculture committee  They know what it's doing. They don't want us here today. They don't want you to know. If the chemical is banned in Europe, they know. There's too much money in it. I don't have the money to fight them.

Agriculture committee  It's sad to say, yes.

Agriculture committee  We thank you.

Agriculture committee  It would be a good start.

Agriculture committee  Okay, if I could have a quick question. Those programs, do they also cover when your bees have died because of chemicals?

Agriculture committee  From our own experience, we're blessed with seven children. When we had all this corn planting.... We're thinking, “Is it linked?” I don't know, but two of my kids had pounding, sore heads. Three of my children have clusters of hair coming out of their heads. My boy, who is 17