Agriculture committee  Canada has an important role to play, certainly in promoting science-based rules to trade but also in its participation in some of the international organizations where some of the international standards are set. I know the government committed some extra funding to these intern

Agriculture committee  Okay.

Agriculture committee  Yes, thank you. I was saying that Canada does have a leadership role to play in promoting these science-based, evidence-based rules at these international standards organizations, and we're certainly very happy with the extra funding that was committed to them. But I think in th

Agriculture committee  We would agree with those. It's really about making sure that trade is based on science and evidence, whether it's in the field of biotech or crop inputs. It really helps growers right through the value chain to have a predictable and transparent approach to trade if they know th

Agriculture committee  Further to that, I sometimes think of our health care system that we tend to be ranked very well in terms of handling acute crisis situations, but not so much on those low-level issues. That's what we see, certainly, with the market access secretariat, in its ability to address t

Agriculture committee  To further that, I think we've seen a tremendous commitment from the market access secretariat to address trade barriers. I know on Tuesday of this week, you heard testimony from government officials. You talked about the number of trade barriers that are in that big matrix for t

Agriculture committee  Yes, since we're talking about biodiesel. It's certainly one of the solutions that we would like to put forward in terms of climate change, and that is to increase our federal mandate from 2% to 5%. When you look at canola, for example, and compare canola as a biofuel to a fossil

Agriculture committee  Yes, it's high value.

Agriculture committee  I was just going to add to what Patti was saying. I think that at the farmer level they're absolutely prepared to adopt new technology to address climate change—it's good for them as well—but they also don't want to be put out of business. How do you find programs and policies th