Okay, what I see is that basically you tightened up spending to save taxpayers money. But what I also see in the estimates is a real focus on science and innovation: $520 million listed for science and innovation, $72 million for industry capacity, and $211 million for market access initiatives. That's almost three-quarters of a billion dollars that will try to make our farm gate more competitive.
I would like to talk about science and innovation. I know that under your leadership, the department has moved to a model that integrates industry with university researchers, with government researchers, particularly through the science cluster process. Certainly the feedback that we received here on committee, when we were studying Growing Forward 2, was that this was extremely well received by industry. I think they liked the matching funds idea as well.
But I'd like to get it from your perspective, Minister. You've been out on the ground as well. I'd like to know what feedback you're getting from stakeholders, be they farmers or their representative organizations, on, first of all, our investments in science and innovation, and secondly, with the science cluster format that we've put in place.