Trying to come up with a figure on what's been invested in canola research publicly or privately is a huge challenge. You have life science companies that invest millions and millions of dollars in individual variety development. I certainly know what goes through our organization in terms of project funds. At the last Growing Forward science cluster, the Canola Council saw the value chain receive $15 million in federal funding, and one of our member organizations, SaskCanola, a producer organization, received another $5 million. That's $20 million over five years of program funds alone. I think even within the federal government they do have challenges in trying to determine how much is spent on each commodity, but the department is doing work on that.
On May 12th, 2014. See this statement in context.