Agriculture committee  I guess it depends on the operation and the intensity of the operation.

Agriculture committee  That's a good question. I think the answer depends on the threshold and the crop. If the threshold is, let's say, zero and the crop is canola, I would suggest it's probably too late. That may also be the case for flax, though, given recent studies out of the University of Saskatc

Agriculture committee  On the first question, of course, the Danish model is a decision by the nation state and not a subset thereof. Yes, the organic sector could get together and discuss this, but I'm sure their issues would be what are their protections and their recourse mechanisms and where are th

Agriculture committee  Certainly, the adoption of GM canola was very rapid in western Canada. In fact, there's published work to show, through farmer surveys, that farmers chose GM canola because of operational benefits. Translated, that means they found GM canola easier to farm, and it provided better

Agriculture committee  Certainly, for the case of canola in western Canada, it would be exceedingly difficult to guarantee GM-free canola grown in that region. I would almost say that at a commercial scale it might be impossible to do that, because there's so much of it throughout the system. For oth

Agriculture committee  Backing up from that a little bit, I guess the first question is whether there is a requirement for us to prevent that movement or not. Currently, when we de-regulate and commercialize a GM crop in Canada, for example, there is no requirement to prevent movement, so I guess we'd

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. I appreciate the opportunity to present to the committee today. As a little bit of background on myself, I'm associate dean and professor here at the Ontario Agricultural College, and I was previously a professor at the University of Manitoba. I've worked on