Clusters, as you know, be they physical or virtual, bring people together to make innovation happen. It's an important thing that we're all together rubbing shoulders and talking and competing, and creating ideas and creating forward momentum. That's the concept. How you do it again depends on the organization, but it's important that you do it. Working in isolation is never the right way.
In terms of what we do that's international, I have a couple of particularly interesting examples. One would be sweet potato breeding. If all of you have been out for dinner to a restaurant in the last little while, you'll realize that sweet potato fries have become quite popular. Our production in Canada is not very high because they are not a crop that's well adapted to low temperatures. We do okay, but our quality is not great for processing, so we collaborate internationally to develop sweet potatoes that are adapted to production in Canada to try to capitalize on the opportunity that the huge boost in consumption has brought.
Another interesting element would be something we call feeding diversity, or world crops. As you know, there's a demographic shift in Canada based on new immigration patterns that has us with larger populations of people from India and China, who bring with them their own culinary traditions and needs for vegetables that they would normally eat at home. Of course we have broad international collaborations to try to bring in seed, material, and plants, and understand how to grow those crops so that we can again capitalize on the opportunity that immigration has created for the country.