Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Could you refer me to the page of the document? Is this for CFIA?

Agriculture committee  Oh, I'm sorry.

Agriculture committee  We could provide the details to the clerk, but I assure you there is absolutely no reduction in food safety.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. On food safety, there is absolutely no reduction throughout the entire DRAP program for the department. On the $10 million, we could provide the clerk with the details behind it. Most of this has to do with lapses in grants and contributions for the current

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, I would like to answer that question. Direct cuts are at around $3.8 million and they are related to the latest strategic review program. As the minister explained, reductions have to do with a type of forecast. They are around $47 million and affect BRM programs. Giv

Agriculture committee  Like I said, we are in the process of obtaining authorization for that. My colleague might be able to tell you how we are improving the delivery of programs that are not really directly related to the financial system. We will come back to that in the supplementary estimates.

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, I'll start with explaining the numbers. Then maybe my colleague Greg can talk in more detail about the programs. Basically, the increase of $87 million that you see on page 38 looks at two main elements. One is the new agriculture innovation program that was announce

Agriculture committee  It will not affect contributions to producers, be they statutory programs or voted programs. There will be cuts to the department's operating budget. As for salaries, no layoffs are planned during the course of the year, but we are always talking to the people at Treasury Board S

Agriculture committee  Maybe I'll start on the numbers and then I'll pass it on to my colleagues. The $2.2 billion announcement has about $500 million that's earmarked for agriculture, of which--for this fiscal year--we're looking at about a $160 million level of expenditure on various programs. The l

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Bellavance. We apologize. There is indeed a mistake. The figures and the years are correct in the English version. The mistake was made in the French version during translation.

Agriculture committee  Well, it was a mistake made when converting the tables.

Agriculture committee  That does not change the figures in the main tables. This is only an explanatory note. We can provide a revised version of the French explanatory note to the clerk of the committee in very short order.

Agriculture committee  Maybe I can clarify that. If you look in the supplementary estimates (B), I know it says statutory, but there's an amount of $37 million, basically, that is the best forecast we have now on the CAIS expenditure for this year, which is going to bring it to $607 million. Just to

Agriculture committee  As regards the percentage, we don't have the information to hand, but we can forward it to you, if you wish.

Agriculture committee  Correct.