Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the question. The short answer is that I think the selection of varieties moving towards the highest nitrogen use efficiency and water use efficiency that we can manage is certainly extremely important. It's a bit of a longer-term endeavour. At the

Agriculture committee  I'm not sure if I'm understanding your question. Could you rephrase it?

Agriculture committee  I would defer to Dr. Saindon to respond. I don't think I am equipped to reply to that.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's not an easy question to answer, but it's certainly a good question. In terms of an agro-ecological approach, it's not a very definite term, so it's not easy to give a definite response to, but certainly one of the factors is biodiversity, whether at

Agriculture committee  The short answer is that in a more diverse system, particularly a well-balanced system, supply nutrient cycling tends to be favoured, and that would, at least in theory, mean that we would have a more efficient use of those nutrients that are being cycled, so I guess the short an

Agriculture committee  Really, this to me, I think, is a policy question, and I don't believe I'm equipped to answer that.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'll do my best to respond. From my perspective—

Agriculture committee  There would have been information provided in terms of what the emission levels were and the technical aspects. Really, that's all I can respond with.

Agriculture committee  Yes, Mr. Chairman. Thank you and good morning to everyone. My name is Reynald Lemke. I'm a research scientists working out of the Canada Research and Development Centre in Saskatoon. I will mention that it is on Treaty 6 land and the homeland of the Métis. I am a soil scientist