Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To Mr. Godbout, you talked about federal research programs and the fact that you see a reduction in these things. In Ontario, when we toured the University of Guelph, we saw a great many research projects being undertaken, the vast majority in partnership with major manufacturers. I'll call them that because they're really agribusinesses that are in the manufacturing business. They use all the terminology these days of manufacturers--I come out of the manufacturing centre--and they use all the buzzwords that have been used for the last 20 to 25 years, “value-added” being one of them, by the way, which is an old manufacturing term from the 1985 era.
Nonetheless, what would you like to see in real terms--I don't know if you can put a dollar figure to it, or a percentage--that we would see applied to agricultural colleges and universities and federal research departments? The agriculture department used to have a research department that was quite flourishing, but isn't so much anymore. We would actually get pure research, if you will, pure science, that then could be utilized by the broad base rather than proprietary science, which really is what happens when you have an amalgam of this corporation or that corporation in the agricultural field, which then will sell it to you versus it being done as a national piece that's then shared.
What would you like to see from that perspective, one way or the other? It may be less, it may be more; I'm not sure.