Agriculture committee  At the moment, our emphasis is on environmental practices. We want to see whether there are ways in which environmental results can be improved.

Agriculture committee  I am not a scientist myself, but scientists are very good at evaluating the results of their research. There is a plan for each project, which will extend over a number of years. They will look at the data from those projects and will be able to assess the results.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  No, the funding extends over five years.

Agriculture committee  We meet with people from the FCC on a regular basis. They are a very good source of information on the situation of producers on the farm, given that those are their clients. The organization takes care of important matters for their clients, specifically with financing and menta

Agriculture committee  Which report are you talking about?

Agriculture committee  Normally, we look at a report and an official process follows, in which the government becomes familiar with the details and subsequently provides a response. That is the process followed each time a standing committee submits a report. As a department, we take the recommendatio

Agriculture committee  We are making efforts in that direction. As I have said in connection to the work force and the next generation, we work with the provinces on a regular basis. Each of us has programs in the area so that we can determine what has to be done. It may be about groups like 4-H, or ot

Agriculture committee  Jaspinder, do you want to talk a bit about that?

Agriculture committee  I probably can't speak to the demand out there. We're hoping to start rolling out or launching the food policy programming shortly. How quickly we roll it out or how quickly the dollars go will depend on a bunch of things, including take-up and demand. I would say this is the fir

Agriculture committee  We are launching this new program in order to do a little more research with producers and people working in the fields. These are living laboratories. This research will not be done in our laboratories, our research centres, as is normally the case. We are trying to find active

Agriculture committee  The first point I'd make is that if it were to come here, I think the points that Jaspinder made around biosecurity containment—how we set up zones to make sure that we constrain it—are the first things we can do, should it come. This is not to downplay the importance of compensa

Agriculture committee  This was part of the food policy announcement in the budget for $134 million over five years. Food security was one aspect of that. The minister, I think, covered a couple of the programs, one for a local infrastructure fund that would improve access and try to increase access to

Agriculture committee  —of food insecurity. There's $19 million in these estimates to start rolling that program out this year.

Agriculture committee  This is something that we are working.... We have not launched formal consultations yet, so as you pointed out, there is no immediate change coming. We are looking at how to start a process of engagement. To emphasize your point, I think it would be one that would be broad and