I have a lot of similar thoughts.
I guess the collaborative approach as to how the private sector and government are working together has changed, in part because of clusters, in part because of a lot of the rationalization that went on with regard to all of the research centres across the country starting back in the early 1990s. There certainly was a huge shift then.
I think that will continue. Certainly within the industry there's very much a lot of angst around all of the capacity they see being lost in terms of breeding programs and the expertise on the government side of breeding. There's a certain element of public good also that's associated with that, and that has to be maintained. I certainly would hope that we would not ever reach a point where our government would have very little role left in that area.
I think it's about the exchange of information, collaboration, people knowing what's going on within a sector across the country, both as an industry and even among the government researchers. I think there are some voids there that are starting to close. That goes as well for initiatives that we're involved in internationally, through the international potato group or others; we would be in other countries and hear about research that Agriculture Canada was doing that we had no idea was going on.