This research paper on GM food policy had its beginnings in late 2001, when the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy began a research project on the GM industry in Saskatchewan supported equally by the Government of Saskatchewan and the Department of Western Economic Diversification. Dr. Greg Marchildon and Dr. Louise Greenberg oversaw much of the research for this project while they were, successively, Government of Saskatchewan Public Policy Fellows at the Institute. The Institute would like to acknowledge their contribution to this project.