Mr. Chair, I can take a stab at the funding question, and I'll leave it to my colleague to talk about the regulatory question.
As Tom mentioned, we're in what's called Growing Forward 2. It's the tail end of the existing five-year agricultural policy framework. It has evolved over the three policy frameworks. In that, there's a program of industry-led clusters. Those are industry-led research and development clusters of dairy, beef, pork, and pulses. Those are examples of big ones. Within that, there are opportunities for industry to tell us the big things they need developed and what they need answers to. Those are complemented by the science that our branch does, which is further upstream, longer term, more risky, more foundational, and with longer periods for getting answers to questions. We collaborate together on those.
As I mentioned earlier, we're not in a position to talk about the next one. We'll let our minister announce that and speak in more detail, and I would be happy to come back and unpack that.
Producers, the producer organizations, will tell you that the way we've been doing the collaborative research led by industry and Agriculture and Agri-food Canada has been working. We've evolved through the policy frameworks based on their input and on evaluations by our internal evaluation program. Again, I can't speak to the details on funding, but in the current policy framework, there's a fair bit of money that goes out to industry that has to be matched by industry for big clusters and then for smaller research projects.
When it's appropriate for us to talk about the Canadian agricultural partnership in more detail, I would be happy to do so.