Indeed, Madam Chair, I'm happy to report a success story.
Over the past two years, the Government of Canada, working with the Government of P.E.I., agriculture Canada and a major company, the Universal Robina Corporation, has been able to test some seed potatoes in a poorer part of the country. In one year, it increased the yield of the potatoes by 27%. It improved the quality, the taste and the look, and there were multiple colours of potatoes. The Minister of Agriculture here was so impressed that he ordered an initial 10,000 metric tonnes of seed potatoes from P.E.I. to come into the country.
Yes, we are helping to improve impoverished parts of the country by helping farmers locally, thanks to Canadian plant genetics from P.E.I. on top of potato exports.