There are currently seven…

There are currently seven lawsuits filed in Canada in regards to studies provided by industry to register glyphosate which are flawed. However this does not even begin to touch on how backwards our assessment of pesticides are. It is a serious conflict of interest to have the same industry provide studies that are not even scrutinized after exposure in a court of law to how those studies are flawed. To allow a pesticide to be used 24/7 (as with the case with neonics) and ignore the studies showing harm to all insect life is to ask for a collapse of our agricultural systems. New studies show this impacts deer-what about our children? This is like allowing drug companies to directly provide drugs, without any restrictions, without any consideration of the harm to our own children AND without consent. These toxins are in our food system, not properly tracked in their use, not looked for in our food, not even properly assessed before they go on the market (as our auditor general points out with conditional registrations) and this will have (and has had) an impact with our global market. Some countries have refused our products due to contamination concerns with pesticides. To allow agrochemical companies so much power over our food system is detrimental to this country. You can be a leader or simply ignore the many shortcomings of the PMRA.