Thank you very much for your question.
The $4.4 million that you've alluded to is from the genomic research and development initiative. This is an interdepartmental initiative that is led by the National Research Council. It really involves a number of departments, including AAFC, Fisheries and Oceans, Health Canada, NRCan. It is really there in order to develop the capacity for genomic research in the federal government, and it has flourished to the extent that we now have interdepartmental projects that are extremely useful.
I'd like to give you one example of such a project, which is the quarantine on invasive species. It involves a number of departments. It's being able to look at coding for invasive species and being able to distinguish between native and alien species. That really helps our trade and our trade partners to look at some of those effects.
There are other food safety initiatives that are done through that. Within AAFC the funding that comes from the GRDI initiative is really based on doing work around the genomic development of varieties, looking at genomic work around disease resistance, looking at biodiversity, looking at the gene transformation in bacteria so that we are able to help industry be able to address some of the issues we have in the agricultural sector.