Mr. Andrew Goldstein at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

On October 20th, 2016. See this statement in context.

October 20th, 2016 / 9:25 a.m.

Director General, Policy, Planning and Integration Directorate, Strategic Policy Branch, Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food

Andrew Goldstein

No. Our existing Growing Forward 2 framework is split. We call it a $3-billion initiative, and $1 billion of that over the five years currently is spent with federal-only programming. We have three federal-only programming initiatives. The other $2 billion is delivered by the provinces. We contribute 60% of that. The provinces contribute 40%. We expect that there will continue to be federal-only programming, as well as cost-shared programming delivered by the provinces.

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