Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, under our agri-competitiveness program, we have a stream that is referred to as fostering business development, and that is a stream that provides $15.6 million in contribution funding over five years to not-for-profit organizations that operate nationally and have exp

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chairman, maybe I can attempt to answer that question. Under our market development stream of programming that's offered at the federal level, we have what we refer to as generic market development, as well as the market development support that we provide small and medium-s

Agriculture committee  We now find ourselves in year three of a five-year divestiture process, so at this point in time the Government of Canada has ceased operating federal community pastures in the province of Manitoba. We're still engaged in the province of Saskatchewan, although in keeping with the

Agriculture committee  I think that's a Quebec program. I don't think it's a federal program.

Agriculture committee  Okay. Mr. Chair, we could perhaps follow up on that later.

Agriculture committee  I think in the context of the estimates, that's the method by which we are appropriated and receive the funding that supports all of the programs that we deliver. In the context of the current agricultural policy framework, we of course have three major programs that we deliver f

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the question. The last time I was before committee I talked about the fact that under our current framework there are programs that are delivered at the federal level. Federally we have a lot of input into the design and whether those programs are de

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll attempt to answer that question. Agri-risk is a new program that was included as part of the business risk management suite of programs under the current Growing Forward 2 framework. As a result, since it is the first time this program has been put in

Agriculture committee  In terms of how we determine priorities, innovation is a fairly broad priority, and what we really do is work with industry in terms of the establishment of those priorities. With respect to the federal innovation programming that's supported through the Growing Forward 2 framewo

Agriculture committee  Let me add that it is important to remember that risk management programs are not income support programs. They are programs based on the concept of risk management. AgriStability is not the only program. There are also other tools, such as insurance. All those programs give prod

Agriculture committee  One of my colleagues is an expert in the field. Let me invite her to join us at the table to answer your question.

Agriculture committee  That's right. The Treasury Board has a policy that we follow to evaluate our programs. Furthermore, the provinces and territories are responsible for evaluating their own programs. As part of the Growing Forward 2 policy framework, we have set very clear objectives with perform

Agriculture committee  No. They are already in place. When we prepared Growing Forward 2, we negotiated with the provinces a performance framework for this policy. We had to choose very specific indicators. Everything is relative. We identified indicators and a performance framework. That's the basis

Agriculture committee  I can't give you examples at a provincial level. We'd have to go to the province and ask for some specific examples of projects that they've supported that fall under their broad pillar of innovation programming, but in addition to programming that is supported at the regional an

Agriculture committee  And there's a linkage. That formula links to the share of farm cash receipts across the country. It's a long-standing formula that has been used around the cost-shared programming in terms of how much of that overall amount of money.... I think we mentioned at the outset that the