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Agriculture committee CFIA just gave that out.
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
Bill Ferguson
Agriculture committee No. I'm not sure where that one is. We're just getting reports back—
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
Bill Ferguson
Agriculture committee No, it's actual testing from the bees that have been killed in Ontario. It's the results of the—
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
Bill Ferguson
Agriculture committee Yes, they were poisoned with an overdose and they died.
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
Bill Ferguson
Agriculture committee Well, they know it takes two nanograms to kill them. From one of the other studies I read—I think it was the EPA—they were finding it higher than that on them.
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
Bill Ferguson
Agriculture committee There has been a study. It has been tested in Ontario, and they know for a fact that 28 out of 37 samples were affected by clothianidin, and they were doing more studies to see what was involved with the other samples. So there's a fact in that.
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
Bill Ferguson
Agriculture committee We're mainly in Huron county now.
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
Bill Ferguson
Agriculture committee Yes, it's available online.
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
Bill Ferguson
Agriculture committee If I get who I am to send the link to, I can do that.
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
Bill Ferguson
Agriculture committee Well, we see that the canola is affected. There are benefits from pollination. Even soybeans benefit from pollination. The research from Guelph shows that it runs from 7% to 10%; even a 7% to 10% increase in your crop can be sizeable. We still don't want to see this product goin
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
Bill Ferguson
Agriculture committee I have a report here. I only printed one off because I just found it. It's from the EPA and it's 108 pages, which tells all the problems that are going on with other things. It affects warm-blooded animals. They did some studies on rabbits, and they have premature births. They ha
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
Bill Ferguson
Agriculture committee I'm not going to read the whole thing.
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
Bill Ferguson
Agriculture committee It would probably take about a minute to go through.
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
Bill Ferguson
Agriculture committee It's page 11 in the report, and it says: Clothianidin’s— —which is part of the neonicotinoids— major risk concern is to nontarget insects (that is, honey bees). Clothianidin is a neonicotinoid insecticide that is both persistent and systemic. Acute toxicity studies to honey
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
Bill Ferguson
Agriculture committee Do you mean this year?
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
Bill Ferguson