Historically, one of the major gaps in Canada in pest control has been developing products for what we call minor crops. These would be crops where the market size might not be sufficient to compel a company to invest the $200 million that's required. These are crops like cranberries, blueberries, or perhaps there's a minor disease in a major crop.
One of the things that the first Growing Forward policy provided was funding through Agriculture Canada to develop some of that basic research on these minor pests. Collaborating with the industry, who already had the knowledge for that product but needed that additional information on that minor crop....
The collaboration there, between Agriculture Canada and CropLife, to develop these tools and technologies for farmers...which are critical. As you may know, a small disease on a crop could completely take out the crop in a matter of days. So these products are very important.
That's one example of a real partnership that the funding from the government has provided to enable farmers to produce some of these minor crops.