As Tom mentioned, budget 2016 dedicated $30 million for biovigilance. That's something we talked about at the last committee meeting.
Budget 2017 mentioned $70 million. In the near future, our minister will be announcing what the government has decided to do with that.
For the Canadian ag partnership that was mentioned, Mr. MacGregor mentioned this apparent loss of funding for R and D. If you compare the Growing Forward 2 budget and the Canadian ag partnership, we're in the same good shape. I think GF2 is very well funded for research and development, and it's the same with the Canadian ag partnership.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet, which some of us are very excited about, is the supercluster. Within the supercluster, there's $150 million that's dedicated toward the protein industries Canada supercluster that's based out of Saskatoon but has partners across the country. To the earlier point about the breakthrough in getting $75 billion, I see that as a huge opportunity for us because, yes, we'll have to improve our productivity in the field, but this will actually improve our ability to process foods.
With protein innovations, they're looking at fractionating. You take a grain or a pulse and fractionate it into different things—100% protein, carbohydrates, lignins, or fats—and using each of those fractionations in a new product.