Biotechnology agriculture industry lobbies hard against Atamanenko’s private member’s bill

The biotech industry's national association, BIOTECanada, spent last Tuesday in 50 meetings with federal politicians and senior government officials lobbying them to kill C-474, among other issues.

An NDP private member's bill had the biotechnology industry lobbying Parliamentarians last week that if they pass it into law, it could stifle future Canadian innovation of new crop varieties and cause the agricultural biotechnology industry to stagnate.

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