Agriculture committee  I'm going to refer that to my colleague—

Agriculture committee  This is a comment that Sylvain Charlebois asked me to bring forward on these kinds of issues.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Rousseau. Right now, along the entire value chain, energy costs are an issue. For example, the companies that I deal with are asking us to look at ways they can process foods with less energy, as are the producers looking to use less energy in producing their crop

Agriculture committee  Yes, and they are actually asking us to look at processes that use less water. Dr. Raizada can probably speak to this issue in relation to drought-tolerant crops. Food companies are now sourcing crops that are drought-tolerant, and they're having to process those commodities very

Agriculture committee  I think regulation happens at many levels. From a university perspective, getting clinical trial approval through an ethics board at a university is difficult. It's compounded by the fact that in Canada we don't have harmonized ethics board approval at the universities. As a resu

Agriculture committee  Changing the transportation system is a slow process. I think you have to talk about innovative ways of combining other technologies with transportation. My colleague Tim Durance has that company EnWave, which is a vacuum microwave facility. They dry down the product so that you'

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Frank, for bringing up those issues. I think we have a challenge not just in the food area but with agriculture in general to fund more research. The biggest challenge, as I've identified, is taking that good idea and converting it into a usabl

Agriculture committee  Yes. Finally, Dave Smardon and Doug Knox from BioEnterprise Corporation, a commercialization firm, have identified again that we need to consolidate. My last comment is from Anita Stewart, a food author and food activist. She also talks about collaboration. Mr. Chair, there ar

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and honourable members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to address you on the issue of marketing and trade. My name is Rickey Yada. I'm a professor in the department of food science at the University of Guelph and the scientific director

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, I'll just add to that. I don't dispute what's in the literature with regard to certain studies. I'll tell you that the challenge we have with any of these kinds of studies is that we need to have replicated trials with standardized protocols and standardized end point

Agriculture committee  Yes, we acknowledge that there is a peer review system.

Agriculture committee  I'm probably the least qualified to answer that question, but in the eyes of a food scientist, it would be the use of a biological system to produce a product. Now, that process may be through genetic manipulation of a product, through genetic engineering, or it may be through

Agriculture committee  Correct.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Easter. You're correct that AFMNet received $5.6 million a year. We acted as a granting council for Canadian researchers in the agrifood sector, also in the social sciences and humanities sector in relation to food. As I indicated in my presentation, what this fu

Agriculture committee  Well, unless we find other sources of funding, I would say that those projects will cease to exist. Again, the infrastructure that's been built up will erode very quickly without funding.