That's great.
On your behalf, I've made a few announcements lately. Last week I was at Mirexus, which is making nanotechnology particles from corn. Probably neither one of us knows what the nanotechnology is that they're using, but in terms of a farmer, there are 4,500 tonnes per year of corn going into nanotechnology instead of into the commodities market, which gives the farmers a stable customer that is going to be using this on an ongoing basis to make skin creams and cancer treatments.
At the Arkell research station, we also announced $1.12 million for the Canadian Animal Health Coalition, a great group of people—farmers and industry people—who are looking at safe transportation of animals, which is something that we studied here at committee. It was so good to see your ministry stepping up and helping with the safe treatment of animals going forward.
I know that last time we talked about the estimates I said that there are innovation funds in agriculture and from the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development: which ones do we go to and in which cases? These are all agricultural innovations that help both sides of the farm gate. Could you talk about the collaboration that you're developing with the strategic innovation funds with ISED and with the Department of Health and other departments that were working on this?