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Agriculture committee  Both of these are still policies under development. They're not in place. There are still discussions going on, on both.

November 29th, 2018Committee meeting

Chris Forbes

Agriculture committee  Generally, the commercialization of products will come within industry. We're not in the business of commercialization generally. We do have programming that goes a bit to that side, not necessarily with our own innovations, but we do have programming that supports that.

November 29th, 2018Committee meeting

Chris Forbes

Agriculture committee  Thank you.

November 29th, 2018Committee meeting

Chris Forbes

Agriculture committee  The Agricultural Growth Act...? I'm not sure I—

November 29th, 2018Committee meeting

Chris Forbes

Agriculture committee  I don't know if we've gone that specific—

November 29th, 2018Committee meeting

Chris Forbes

Agriculture committee  Let me just tell you quickly about the kind of stuff we've done. We have worked with the food processing industry round table. It's a sector round table that we bring together to look at some of the costs associated with the proposals—for example, the proposals around front-of-pa

November 29th, 2018Committee meeting

Chris Forbes

Agriculture committee  What we try to do—sorry, Chair—is just make sure that the information flows both ways. The sector's information and what they see as the impacts are brought to the attention of our colleagues. Similarly, the processes and priorities and the understanding of our colleagues are com

November 29th, 2018Committee meeting

Chris Forbes

Agriculture committee  In the statement, obviously a number of specific regulatory commitments were laid out in terms of priorities for officials and for the government to get through. Timelines will vary from item to item. You raised the example of the plants with novel traits. We are engaging with th

November 29th, 2018Committee meeting

Chris Forbes

Agriculture committee  Let me jump in for a moment, Jaspinder. To your point about what came out in the statement, I would say a couple of things. We heard a lot about how to get more external voices talking about regulation and how to think more about economic issues when we look at regulation. You

November 29th, 2018Committee meeting

Chris Forbes

Agriculture committee  I'm not sure of the 48%. Why don't we look into that for you? That seems a bit much, unless I'm missing something in the supplementaries versus the....

November 29th, 2018Committee meeting

Chris Forbes

Agriculture committee  Christine, do you want to talk about the 48%? Then I'll come back to the overall direction.

November 29th, 2018Committee meeting

Chris Forbes

Agriculture committee  Whatever farmers need will be paid out.

November 29th, 2018Committee meeting

Chris Forbes

Agriculture committee  If I can step back, it's a review of the full set of BRM. It's not just AgriStability.

November 29th, 2018Committee meeting

Chris Forbes

Agriculture committee  It has a lot of interest from folks, but there are others, such as AgriRecovery and AgriInsurance, that are significant expenditures. We did have a report from the panel to FPT ministers in the summer. They came with a few recommendations. Some of it was about finding more priva

November 29th, 2018Committee meeting

Chris Forbes

Agriculture committee  I think you make an excellent point. Under the agricultural partnership with the provinces, we do work together. Environment and climate change are one of the priorities. I'll make a couple of points in that regard. Carbon sequestration and carbon emissions are a big part of th

November 29th, 2018Committee meeting

Chris Forbes