Agriculture committee  Borders and inspections are not the responsibility of our department but of the Canada Border Services Agency and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Both of these agencies have funds to do inspections. They have an approach—

Agriculture committee  For the most part, these are amounts that provincial programs did not spend in 2018 and have been carried forward to 2019. That is in the supplementary estimates.

Agriculture committee  Quite honestly, we're still in the stage of scoping out what that could include.

Agriculture committee  The advisory services and that kind of work does come to organizations like the Business Development Canada. I think the regional development agencies are also sometimes involved in the food processing sector in particular. We are going through a bit of a scoping phase to look a

Agriculture committee  I can't speak to the impetus, because obviously it came from the Prime Minister or the minister. I guess what I would say is that I understand that the context would be around how we better align our efforts to help the sector grow. Maybe that would be the simplest way for me to

Agriculture committee  We have existing tools, obviously, through our own programming, through the trade commissioner service, so I think we're looking at some of the challenges we face and whether there are aspects of those existing tools or other things that we can bring to the table that might help.

Agriculture committee  Maybe more broadly, obviously, as an export-oriented sector; the agriculture and agri-food sector has very export-oriented, very diverse markets across the world. I think that has a lot of benefits and lots of opportunities. Obviously it brings some challenges too, in terms of wo

Agriculture committee  I think the main point would be the local food infrastructure fund that the minister mentioned of $50 million. I think there are aspects of that in terms of creating a bit more capacity in communities to, in many cases, just ensure there is food, whether local or from elsewhere,

Agriculture committee  The sectors or the regions?

Agriculture committee  We are trying to keep it consistent between the federal and provincial governments. The way we work closely together is a bit unique in the world. We share the cost of the programs. We've created a series of programs that are effective and are aimed at the whole sector across the

Agriculture committee  —we can look at them to see if it could be useful as another tool.

Agriculture committee  In terms of risk management programs, I would say that we already have two approaches. It's not emergency funds, but that's the kind of the approach we're talking about here. The first is AgriInvest. These are savings accounts where the government matches producer contributions.

Agriculture committee  Yes. It's up to them to choose.

Agriculture committee  AgriRecovery is the other program I wanted to mention. It's designed to meet certain needs in the event of a disaster, such as flooding. We start the process at the request of the provinces. This allows for a quick response in such situations. Our goal is to help producers to me

Agriculture committee  That's about the tax and other measures that might be specific to reducing the financial barriers around the intergenerational transfer of farms. That's something the minister referenced that she's working on with the Minister of Finance.