Agriculture committee  I can tell you about similar facilities. Holland College has a research centre that is focused very much on what you're describing. They're focused particularly on the food industry, but they're doing market testing and taste testing on the look and feel of products in order to e

Agriculture committee  That's an ongoing challenge.

Agriculture committee  Things move quickly, and colleges move quickly. They're bringing on new projects. We've tried showcases and databases of projects, and you can't possibly keep up with it. If something is happening, it's going to be happening in a college. We can fill you up with stories and examp

Agriculture committee  The other thing we're very cognizant of is that a lot of the industry partners that come to a college don't have as much information about IP and don't understand the IP regime and what's available to them, so colleges become a bit of an access point for “Who do I go to and where

Agriculture committee  I don't have those numbers, but I will follow up to answer your question.

Agriculture committee  As we said earlier, it is very important to maintain the skills of the current workforce in addition to training the people who are coming into the industry. I think the partnership with industries and companies, to have a conversation and help companies and industries understa

Agriculture committee  I'll come back to you on that question. I'll have to give it a little bit of thought.

Agriculture committee  That is a good question. I will say more or less the same thing I said in response to one of Mr. MacGregor's questions. What matters is how we train people. What matters is not so much the details they are learning during their studies, but how they learn. If young people are ex

Agriculture committee  Maybe I'll respond to that with a general statement and then a specific example. In general, the whole college system is designed to be responsive to the current needs of local industry. We do that through deep connections to those industries, particularly through program adviso

Agriculture committee  This area is really emerging as perhaps the next wave of priority. Dominic Barton highlighted in his reports the need to become what he called a "learning nation", that lifelong learning. I think that is going to be a huge opportunity for colleges to build on the deep connections

Agriculture committee  Absolutely.

Agriculture committee  That's a good question. We are concerned about this in our sector. I think it's something that is not limited to the agriculture sector. It's about helping young people—as well as older people, because, more and more, education is becoming lifelong—understand what colleges and

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the invitation to appear this morning. I am pleased to appear today on behalf of Colleges and Institutes Canada, an extensive network of post-secondary institutions from each province and territory, to which 3,000 urban, rural, remote and northern commu

Industry committee  I think that in general the colleges are probably still in a bit of a start-up mode in relation to having their capacity in applied research well known and well understood. We've been in the applied research business formally for about 10 years now. It's still, as I mentioned ear

Industry committee  I could just make a quick addition to that. Mr. Baylis mentioned the technology access centres, the TACs across the country. They are networked through a group that helps to support exchange of best practices and whatnot, but increasingly a network like that is going to be able t