Mr. Chair, I thank the member for the question.
As I alluded to in my opening remarks, we have an established research program whereby we collaborate with universities in the development of new control products and the like. Beekeepers, as do other agricultural producers, have access to our business risk management programs. Our AgriInsurance program, for example, has provided support to producers who have suffered significant, elevated levels of overwinter losses.
A number of the provincial initiatives that the other witnesses mentioned are oftentimes cost-shared. It's a provincial program, provincially administered, but many of those programs are cost-shared on a sixty-forty basis between the federal government and provincial governments.
As I believe I alluded to in my opening remarks, we hope shortly to present a series of recommendations to federal, provincial and territorial ministers on other additional measures that they might consider to help improve the sustainability of bee populations in Canada. I believe that this work is timely, in the sense that we're just a few weeks into the Canadian agricultural partnership. With many of the science and other programs that are funded through that framework, there is an opportunity, I think, to assess where this sector best fits within that suite.