Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, I repeat, our government has done more than any other to help our agricultural producers. We invested $4 billion to support them last year. That is unprecedented. Recently, $1.5 billion was invested in all our agri-environmental initiatives. I can assure the House t

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Madam Speaker, once again, I want to reassure my colleague. We understand the importance of the situation. We are working in the short term to ensure that we have enough bees for the season. We are also investing in research and innovation. Together with the industry, we will fi

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Madam Speaker, I completely understand my colleague's concern. I can assure the House that we are working closely with the industry. It is true that this year is a particularly difficult one because of diseases and climate change. That is why we are working with the Canadian Fo

Agriculture committee  There are a lot. I mentioned it quickly earlier, but I would say that I was very excited when I learned that out of the protein supercluster there is one initiative around fertilizer made out of canola residue that looks very promising. I think that everything related to having

Agriculture committee  Yes. You will remember the local food infrastructure fund that we've launched. The idea behind this fund actually came out of the Food Policy for Canada plan. We have supported a lot of community organizations across the country to enable them to buy some specific equipment to st

Agriculture committee  Thank you, and I wish you all a pleasant evening as well.

Agriculture committee  We are moving actively. The consultation is done. I've been told the panel has identified almost all the experts, so it will be announced shortly. We are moving forward on this issue.

Agriculture committee  We said we wanted to look at the framework under which the PMRA is working, keeping it science-based, obviously. However, the law dates back to 2002, if I remember well, and we really felt that it had to be looked at and possibly modernized. The consultation has been done. I have

Agriculture committee  Yes. This is why we have put in place a committee with all the representatives of the different stakeholders in the industry. They are working on it right now. This has been requested by the FPT agricultural ministers. Minister Lamontagne and I are following this. We have recei

Agriculture committee  I can talk about the high-level programming, but if you want to have the details of the breakdown, maybe Marie-Claude is ready. If my memory serves me correctly, approximately $700 million were spent on scientific innovation programs. As she looks at the figures, if that's what

Agriculture committee  We have to recognize that in the last two years, farmers have had to go through unexpected situations with COVID, obviously, but also with extreme weather events. These are reasons that could explain the challenges that some of our farmers are facing. I think our government was

Agriculture committee  Yes, I was impressed as well. This is the project I just mentioned about food waste. Recently we gave $376,000 to the Canadian Produce Marketing Association, and it is one very concrete example of the investments we are making toward having packaging that is either compostable or

Agriculture committee  I don't have a date for you yet. This is something we're working on, but I don't have a date.

Agriculture committee  I would start by saying it would be good if we could get Bill C-8 approved. We could process the income tax returns of our farmers and we could send them the cheque for that. You know our position on the price of pollution. We believe, and it's based on experience, that it is on

Agriculture committee  Yes.