Agriculture committee  We receive a lot of ongoing feedback, because there is a lot of interaction with our scientists. Not only do we fund some of these clusters but we also participate, in many cases, in the delivery of these clusters. We're part of the scientific team. We're not always part of it, but very often we are.

Agriculture committee  In reference to bluetongue at the border, I'm not sure to what extent we were involved in developing the vaccine. We probably collaborated in the science underpinning it and understanding what would be needed to provide a good vaccine. I don't know where the work was actually done, but our scientist was an entomologist who participated in this because he knew the biology.

Agriculture committee  This is where we focus the majority of our work, in the area of feedlot beef cattle production. This is where we do that research. There is a lot happening in this particular area. We're working in the area of some cereals, as well as some pulses, which are being developed there on the crop side.

Agriculture committee  The centre works mostly in the areas of cereal breeding, pathology, genomics, as well as entomology and some value-added in the area of food production, cereal-based mostly.

Agriculture committee  Just to touch base a bit on that, the physical facility in Winnipeg is closed and our staff has moved. But as I mentioned earlier, the programs have not been closed. The programs are being consolidated at Morden, which is an hour and a half south of Winnipeg, and a group has also gone to Brandon, where we consolidated a lot of the breeding activities.

Agriculture committee  That's correct. They are continuing on site there. Some of the staff decided not to relocate, and so we're staffing positions right now in the area of wheat breeding. In fact, I think they're staffing as we speak.

Agriculture committee  In terms of our own material, the bulk of our commercialization in the department comes from crop varieties, for which we have a clear system. We have some protections for the varieties in the country and we go through a request for proposal, asking people to bid on the varieties.

Agriculture committee  In terms of that, while we didn't close any research centre, like where we have our large...we had the closure in the area of Winnipeg; the program has been transferred—

Agriculture committee  —to Morden, using our modern facilities at Morden and Brandon, basically. But the program did not change. We had a few farms that were closed across the country, but they were part of the satellite farms linked to a station.

Agriculture committee  In terms of the value added, we have two centres that focus in the area of food research—i.e., transforming the material into food products. Those two centres are Guelph and Saint-Hyacinthe. A number of the clusters have elements of value added; they tend to cover the entire chain, because they focus on markets, on market demands and all of that.

Agriculture committee  We may have a partnership with industries that are in the manufacturing of food products. They may then have an element deployed partly at Saint-Hyacinthe through which they may be adding value to pulse crops, for example. We have some of that as part of the continuum, because when you produce, you have to make sure that the production gets to the market in the right shape and format required by industry.

Agriculture committee  No, we don't have that graph.

Agriculture committee  No, we don't have that.

Agriculture committee  What I'd like to say on this is that this is the research that we will do as a department; that's all the research under stream A. Particularly it's around the thrust or area of crops, livestock, and food, and also in the area of sustainable production systems in terms of environment.

Agriculture committee  To my mind, the most important element in a successful innovation chain is coordinating and aligning the efforts of the various partners. That ensures that everyone is performing their role effectively and that we can implement all the pieces we are responsible for and pass them on to the next stakeholder in the chain in a coordinated and organized manner.