Environment committee  As I said, we started about seven years ago to have discussions with the regulators. I think it took a couple of years just to get their attention. This wasn't on the doorstep yet, but the last few years have been encouraging and frustrating at the same time. I think we're at th

Environment committee  From a scientific perspective, water monitoring to look for point source pollution is a very good surrogate for determining whether or not the measures in your regulatory structure, your on-field buffer strips and your vegetative strips are working. I think water monitoring gives

Environment committee  I mentioned gene editing as one example. There are crops that are being developed in more arid countries that will have an applicability to the Prairies, which are under severe drought conditions. There are crops being developed that have double the root mass of regular crops so

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  I think that, certainly, the more data that is available on the farm, in terms of where the product is.... We have no interest in pesticides ending up where they don't have their effect, and neither does the farmer. Some of the precision technology, where the actual nozzles are t

Environment committee  The question is very pertinent. If you've heard of CRISPR technology and gene editing, it's the new scientific discussion being talked about now, but in agriculture it's the here and now. Certainly we've had a lot of genetic engineering over the years to make better and more resi

Environment committee  Good afternoon, Chair and committee members. As you mentioned, my name is Pierre Petelle. I'm the president and CEO of CropLife Canada. I'll be sharing my time with Terri Stewart, our executive director of chemistry. Thank you for inviting us to participate in your study today

Environment committee  Would you like me to repeat that part?

Environment committee  Okay. We're pleased to highlight some of the many ways that Canada's plant sciences sector is actively contributing to Canada's environmental sustainability by protecting our biodiversity and ensuring clean air, soil and water. CropLife Canada represents an innovative and solut

Agriculture committee  Food waste fits very nicely into this discussion about the innovations that the plant science industry produces, because oftentimes that food waste is due to fungal growth. Whether your tomatoes turn mushy and black, or the wheat that's grown has too much fungus in it for human c

Agriculture committee  This is a very good example of where seed treatments have been extremely useful. Mr. Dreeshen talked about neonicotinoids. This is the issue around pollinators, and has been very controversial. Many people are coming out against neonics. In fact, Europe just announced a full ban

Agriculture committee  I think, all throughout some of the controversial items you mentioned there, we have a role to play, obviously, as the developers of those technologies, to explain the science and defend them. We take that role very seriously, but when we're pointing to a regulatory system that i

Agriculture committee  We produced a report we published two years ago where we made a comparison with organic agriculture in terms of difference in price and productivity. We can provide the full study if you're interested.

Agriculture committee  That's a very good question. We have a campaign to educate and inform the public about the safety of the technologies that our members produce. We've been working closely with different audiences, the audiences that we consider more influencers rather than consumers directly. D

Agriculture committee  We have appeared before this committee before on the question of the re-evaluations with PMRA, and this committee wrote a very helpful letter to the then minister of health, highlighting some of the predictability concerns we had with the process of re-evaluation of PMRA. That la