Specific to a combination of agricultural policy that links health and agriculture, at this point there has been work to try to bring together Health Canada and Agriculture to try to frame discussion around how we develop policy that can support industry. The single-nutrient database would be one significant piece around that.
Have we seen any other policy models? I'm not aware of any.
This is why it's important that we start looking at how we intersect the various government departments' policy, as well as industry. It's not only a public discussion; it's a private discussion as well on how we bring the two together and work across intersecting sectors that are basically working on a common ground. We talked about transportation as examples.
When we look at the health community, in British Columbia, agriculture in the classroom is an example. You not only have agriculture, but you have education and health linking together to deliver a sound program to increase knowledge and consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables with children.
I think these types of policy development models could be very successful on a national level as well.