Canada’s Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry tables its latest report entitled The Importance of Bee Health to Sustainable Food Production in Canada: Current Status and Strategies for Improvement._x000D_
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The report provides a roadmap of nine recommendations the committee believes are necessary to improve bee health. Among them, the Committee is calling on the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) to keep monitoring pollinator mortality during the spring of 2015 to assess whether the protective measures adopted for the 2014 planting season were efficient._x000D_
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Furthermore, the Committee is recommending the PMRA conclude, without delay, its re-evaluation of neonicotinoid insecticides based on evidence and sound scientific principles with an objective of protecting the health of bees._x000D_
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The full report is available here: http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/SEN/Committee/412/agfo/rms/02may15/home-e.htm
