Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank the witnesses for coming today. It's important to get your perspective on Growing Forward.
I'm from the Medicine Hat riding in the southeast corner of Alberta. We have a huge agricultural area, with both dry-land farming and irrigation. Our crops include peas, lentils, beets, potatoes, canola, wheat, barley, etc. It's a very well-diversified area. There are certain issues—and you have talked about them—but I don't really want to get into the transportation side of things at this time.
My first question will be to Dr. Van Acker.
You have done some research on the coexistence of GM and GM-free crops. I'm wondering if you can explain some of the results of your studies, and how farmers on both sides of the issue can work together here in Canada.