Agriculture committee  Thank you. I do think that we need to ensure the capacity of agrifood research—

Agriculture committee  I will raise three points. The first is that Agriculture Canada and Canada generally should, as much as it can with Growing Forward 2 and other vehicles, emphasize the significance of the agrifood sector in Canadian society. It's playing a big role and will play a very big role

Agriculture committee  I think it works on two levels, particularly if we're going to talk about crops. By way of example, we definitely need to increase the capacity to take knowledge from the laboratory through to the field. That means we need to improve our capabilities to undertake plant breeding i

Agriculture committee  I think they can co-exist. We will need to develop research procedures and develop the knowledge and technologies to allow them to co-exist. Professor Van Acker talked about a major conference in Vancouver on co-existence. There will be a very good dialogue on that whole issue.

Agriculture committee  I might add that science and its development are very important. It goes back to the Green Revolution when people felt India would need to be abandoned and that hundreds of millions of people were going to starve. But in fact, science did a major positive thing for society by dev

Agriculture committee  For automobile replacement parts, headrests, and those sorts of things, fibres from crops such as flax and hemp make excellent biocomposites that are durable, light, and environmentally friendly. Ontario has a partnership with the National Research Council and the automobile manu

Agriculture committee  With replacement parts and in the area of fuels, there are companies that are manufacturing and selling oilseed products as asphalt-removing agents. There's a company called Milligan Bio-Tech in Saskatchewan that uses low-grade frozen canola seed to make these products. They have

Agriculture committee  Thank you. I think the first Growing Forward policy framework, or Growing Forward 1, did present some interesting new programs, for example, the idea of science clusters around such key crops as canola. I think the first set of attempts was good, in that it pulled together group

Agriculture committee  Let me list a couple of things. As we start building this capacity, we want to see an effort on commercialization and development. We want opportunities for ensuring that private sector players, small companies particularly, can take advantage of developments by our looking at

Agriculture committee  We would like to see something in Growing Forward 2, or perhaps in some partnership with whatever happens with the R and D panel report from yesterday, because there's going to be a lot of emphasis on R and D capacity-building in the private sector. That would allow us to get ove

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to present. Genome Prairie is an organization that's been around for about 11 years. We have responsibility for Manitoba and Saskatchewan and are one of six regional centres spread across the country. We work very closely with the nationa

Finance committee  Genome Canada receives the funding from Industry Canada and Genome Canada puts the call out for proposals across the country.

Finance committee  Well, there are six regional centres, and our request was really not in this case on funding for Genome Canada but for activities that relate to a commercialization of operations within our region.

Finance committee  Thank you very much, and thank you for giving us the opportunity to present. My name is Wilf Keller. I serve as president and CEO of Genome Prairie. I'm accompanied by Patrick Pitka, our chief financial officer. I'd also like to point out that Dale Patterson, the vice-president