I think in Canada we can be so proud of our agri-food production system, plants and animals both. From Prince Edward Island to the University of British Columbia, whether we look at the veterinary medical faculty at the Université de Montréal or the agriculture college at Laval or at Guelph or Manitoba, you just name it, if you look at the growth of our country, which grew out of a land production system-based economy, and where we are today, I think the role of the veterinary and agricultural colleges is very clear.
When we look at the Ontario Veterinary College or the Ontario Agricultural College, their contribution to turning Ontario into a production house when it comes to pork, to poultry and to the plants system is clear.
Take the example of Saskatchewan over the last 115 years and its creation of knowledge, which was in response to the challenges that our farmers faced. This has really galvanized our food production system, not only on the sustainability front, where we sustain our land, we're stewards of our water resources and we're stewards in environmental care, but actually, about $18 billion in food production exports come from the province of Saskatchewan.
Now again, if I may say, it is about connectedness. Once we have connected the end-users to the people who are discovering new knowledge, then the cycle keeps on amplifying itself over and over again. Within that space there are developments. For example, the creation of the superclusters or the global clusters. Within the ecosystem of Saskatchewan now we have Protein Industries Canada, our global cluster. Now that's where we are trying to convert our agri-food product into a protein product at the end of the day that the world needs in greater and greater amounts, from India to Africa to Bangladesh and anywhere else.
The evolution of our agri-food production system over the 115 years in sophistication and investment I think shows how we can do better from discovery to the economic product at the end of the day.