Agriculture committee  Is that the value of the neonics? It's the European Union—

Agriculture committee  The working groups were formed in late December, shortly before the holiday break, as a result of the first meeting of the multi-stakeholder forum. They've been meeting weekly, or each of them meets on a weekly basis by teleconference. They have work plans developed and I believe

Agriculture committee  I think that's exactly right. Last year we had one of the warmest springs on record and record bee populations coming out of the winter. Corn was going in early. The flowering weeds were up early. As you said, it was a perfect storm of contributing factors that likely all came to

Agriculture committee  First of all, with respect to communication with beekeepers, as a national organization we've reached out to the Canadian Honey Council, the national body that represents beekeepers across Canada. We've tried to work very closely with them throughout the last 12 months. I think t