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Il a dit, si je ne m'abuse, que les agriculteurs ignoraient en gros la technologie, qu'ils ne connaissaient pas les effets du canola en ce sens que, oui, ils en avaient profité, mais au détriment de qui, et à quel prix?
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Mr. Dick Proctor: We had a group here, Mr. Chair, you'll recall--I think it was a week ago today--dealing with this from another aspect. I think the term one of them used was that farmers were “ignorant” , which was the word chosen, on the impact of canola in the sense that, yes, it had benefited, I'll concede you that, but at whose expense and at what expense? There's absolutely, as I understand it, no possibility of growing organic canola anywhere on the Prairies now because of the pervasive influence of the fact that everything else is GM canola. And so organic farmers are virtually out of that business. There's simply no way for them to have an entry point into the market because of contamination.
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