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

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

October 20th, 2016 / 9:50 a.m.

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

Andrew Goldstein

I will take that second part of your question.

We're generally very pleased to hear of someone of Dominic Barton's stature talking about the importance of agriculture. I think it's great that someone from that side of things can see the tremendous potential of agriculture contributing to the Canadian economy. That's something that is driving us in terms of the kinds of investments that we would like to help to support the sector move forward and take advantage of those opportunities from innovation.

I'll leave my colleague to answer the first part of your question.

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