Thank you for coming. You provide us such a great service. I'm still pinching myself, as a new MP, about the quality of the presentations and the people we get to interact with. You're the leaders working in the background in Canada to provide the science we need to be leaders in the world.
When I see things like your presentation, Andrea, saying we're in the top five, a light goes on in my head that says we should be number one. We have the best scientists. We have the best universities. We have the land available.
The University of Guelph plays a key role with all of you, and so the help that you give our scientists at the University of Guelph is also hugely appreciated. We want to be number one in the world. We've just received $77 million of CFREF funding to be the leaders in the world for food. Beyond being leaders in the world, we need to be there for the world to provide protein. The world needs more protein as the middle class in developing nations grows.
Andrea, you have some market information. Could you comment on what Agriculture Canada is trying to do to be able to feed the world as well as our country? Where can we help in terms of policy framework, which is the larger study we're doing right now? We're heading into budget time and I know you'll be interacting with the minister, but from your standpoint, where are the barriers to growth that would allow us to be number one in the world?