Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Just to get a little bit of clarification on what Mr. Lintott said when he was talking about the Dutch grass seed company not coming up to Canada.
If I understood you correctly, you are effectively saying that because our market is not big enough, we tend not to get the research targeted at our particular crops. If that's true, how big a research area do we need, and where do we start to go with the specializations?
You noted you're from what we refer to as the “banana belt of Manitoba”, which is going to be a bit different from the Peace district up in Alberta-B.C. Some crops will grow in that entire region, other things will be much more specialized.
How specialized do we go with our programming for targeting and nuancing particular crop varieties? Do we go all of western Canada? All of Ontario? All of Atlantic Canada? How do we break down the subspecialties in there?