Could I raise a point of order?
I want to follow up on a point that came up in the last meeting. We had Jodi Koberinski here from the Organic Council of Ontario. In her testimony, she said she felt the sector was not well supported with public funding and she was encouraging the investment of public money for research. One of the comments she made was that the sector was able to achieve this kind of growth without financial support, regulatory support, or research dollars of any significance from the public. As MPs, we had better look into this. Mr. Easter had asked the analyst to put together a report for committee.
What I would like to tell the committee is that I've also gone back to the department and asked the department to report to me on this. I have information here in both official languages that I'd like to give to the clerk, who can then give it to the analyst, but you can also distribute it to members, if not today, perhaps for the next meeting.
I'm not going to read everything, but just for the record I want to highlight a couple of key initiatives. There is an organic value-chain round table that has been in existence for five years and has received about $500,000 from the government. Another important initiative is—