Alistair MacGregor at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

Thanks, Chair.

I have a quick question for Ms. Stafford.

In the last Parliament, our committee took a study across Canada and we actually visited some food-processing centres that helped small-scale producers innovate and create new products. Is there any kind of capacity like that close by in our region? Could that be a beneficial targeted investment—making a new product that no one had ever really thought of before and allowing that experimentation in a fully commercial-grade kitchen with all the food safety procedures in place?