Mr. Chair, I'm going to start by providing a counter-context to some of the things I'm hearing about woe in the research industry, because the government is shifting its emphasis back to industry.
I'll start with poultry. I'm reading here in the brief, “The poultry industry has reacted to changes in consumer expectations in several ways...”. I think the poultry industry is closer to the consumer in understanding what the consumer wants, and they're closer to their producers than the government is. I would think the science cluster would be advantageous to the poultry industry, because industry has the lead on the cluster.
For the longest time we've heard that they want the government to put in place a mechanism that brings together the different players, and to give industry the lead, because they're the experts. We do that, and we move some funding that way, and then they say we've taken funding away from government researchers, and we're crippling their industry, but they wanted the cluster format in the first place, and industry to have the lead. I'm wondering if you can comment on that.