I appreciate that.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's nice to have you here today. One thing I want to commend you guys on is that you've been great for this committee. You've been willing to come and present to us. A couple of weeks ago, we had members of the agriculture department talking to the committee in camera about some of the programs, and you're here again today. We appreciate your time and your efforts and we thank you for all the work you've done in this last year.
There are a couple of places I want to go to on the research side of it, because I think we need to keep our eye on that ball. I think that ball is very important for our agriculture producers as we move forward. We've seen in the past.... I know that we've had Mr. Allen and Mr. Valeriote and the western producers talking about how we're not spending enough in agriculture money. I think they don't understand or they don't want to talk about DIAP, science clusters, and the agri-innovation program.
Can you just talk about page 38 in the main estimates? Under the line “Science, Innovation and Adoption”, we have $339 million budgeted for the upcoming fiscal year, which is an increase of $87 million. Can you tell us how you're going to use this money, or how this money is being used, and just what types of things our government is investing in?