Agriculture committee  We are also concerned that these concentrations are in the water. For the most part, the water is in the lakes. It settles and concern is starting to grow about what is happening with the accumulation of these products in the sediment. There is very little research to document th

Agriculture committee  Once again, I will use the example of flax. Generally, once a GMO is authorized and disseminated in open environments, neither the biotech company nor the farmer using the genetically modified seeds have a clear responsibility toward producers of non-GMO products, which are grea

Agriculture committee  Again, I'd like to come back to our flaxseed example, if I may. How do you explain the fact that GMO flaxseed production stopped in 2001 and yet, in 2009, flaxseed containing traces of GMOs was found in 34 countries? That is 8 years later. How do you explain that if there were no

Agriculture committee  I could answer that, if I may. When it comes to organic production, not only do farmers bear the burden of proof, but they also bear the burden of cost. They must ensure that their product is GMO-free, and they have to bear that cost. They have to take precautions and even finan

Agriculture committee  My name is Laurier Busque, Chair of the Zero-Waste Committee.

Agriculture committee  We would now like to discuss two sources that we believe are at the origin of the problem of the environmental drift of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. The first is the unrestrained development of genetic modification technology. Figure 1 contains a diagram illustrating