Agriculture committee  What I would like to add to this is that perhaps within the province of British Columbia, I would refer to it as a virtual research centre, because we have structures federally and also provincially. The universities and also the ministries of agriculture and forestry have some f

Agriculture committee  We would have to look into the eligibility of these programs, yes.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. There are probably different ways of going after this, but it's also dealing with the United States and, in this case, those might be some approaches that would have some merit there. We do talk every year to the United States and the USDA ARS, the

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I'll make an attempt to answer the question. In terms of research in agriculture and agrifood, we work in a concerted manner with industry as well as with provinces. That's part of the joint framework we have with them. We do a lot of our rese

Agriculture committee  I don't know if I can predict exactly what will come in the next framework, but obviously what we've heard a lot at committees and from people when they've talked to us is that they see a lot of merit in these research partnerships and the research aligned along clusters or proje

Agriculture committee  I think there is a lot happening interdepartmentally. The example I will give you is around genomics research, which we do with all the other departments within the Government of Canada under the genomics research and development initiative. We have two large projects that we'll

Agriculture committee  It's a very good point, because with the launch of the new clusters led by the Western Grains Research Foundation, we managed this time to have the entire country under one umbrella. Before we had the group in Ontario, and in Quebec the Fédération des producteurs de cultures com

Agriculture committee  Exactly.

Agriculture committee  That is possible in some situations. The first version of Growing Forward: Toward a New Agriculture Policy Framework included a science cluster focused on organic farming. I don't have the details with me, but we worked on that for the five years of the first policy framework.

Agriculture committee  Do you mean on tree fruit?

Agriculture committee  We still have Kentville, in Nova Scotia, and Summerland, in British Columbia. The genetic material is kept in Harrow, Ontario.

Agriculture committee  Nine clusters were involved, and I'm just going to check the number of projects so I don't give you the wrong information. There were 9 clusters and 14 projects.

Agriculture committee  We could certainly provide that for you.

Agriculture committee  The United States is our biggest partner as far as international science collaboration goes, given its proximity and its highly developed capacity. We also engage in a good amount of collaboration with Europe, especially France, which has some really powerful agencies. We also

Agriculture committee  Some organic farming projects are under way around the country, especially in the area of horticultural production. I can't name them off the top of my head, but most of them involve horticulture. Sometimes, we contribute to projects. We've taken part in organic wheat projects. W