As Tom mentioned, in the current framework we have programs that are decided bilaterally between provinces and the federal government on what sort of beneficial management practices a province and the federal government would like to make available to producers. Those practices would include the conservation of soil and the protection or conservation of water, whether it be too much or too little water.
In that process, we know a little bit about a lot of those beneficial management practices, enough to know that we think they're pretty good, so let's try them. What we're proposing with the living labs, les laboratoires vivants, is to actually work with producers to scientifically measure how much carbon it will captures. We think it will capture carbon, but how much will it capture? In the process of capturing carbon, it's also building the microbiome in the soil at the same time.
That's something that we need to do. We need to take a systematic approach because we need to understand the entire system—what was growing there three years ago, five years ago, and last year—so that we can provide science to help producers protect their systems and farms from catastrophic attacks of pests. In the existing framework, the department does have backup risk management for those situations where a producer faces a catastrophic loss.