Agriculture committee  Yes. In terms of the CAP program, the food policy covers food safety, health, and the economic side. When you look at some of the programming there, certainly all these areas are ones that can be supported by programming under the agricultural partnership and potentially other ar

Agriculture committee  Well, certainly on a couple of fronts, and one is that our research is very collaborative. Our researchers work with industry, with academia, both domestically and internationally, and with the provinces in terms of the research agenda, much of which comes under CAP. You will see

Agriculture committee  Yes, and Guelph. Pardon me.

Agriculture committee  I think the AgriMarketing program is the primary vehicle in terms of promoting our development of international markets for Canadian companies. That, I think, will be the primary program of interest to those who are looking to export, but certainly the other programs on the innov

Agriculture committee  I think it's something where there are province-by-province approaches to environmental farm plans, so moving to a national...it certainly would have some benefits, as you've outlined. I think the role of—and the minister, I think, referred to this in his remarks—the federal gov

Agriculture committee  Yes. I think the one specific point I would say is there will be a program specifically—the agri-diversity program is what we're calling it—around bringing in people who have not been in farming before or who have been under-represented in the agricultural sector. The examples we

Agriculture committee  This would be a new program, so I think part of the government's inclusive growth agenda would be to bring this program into play. Again, it would start with education and awareness and building outreach and support, as much as anything else, to make those links and bring people

Agriculture committee  On your first part, it's been in place for three months, so I probably can't give you any hard data.

Agriculture committee  I would say that there is definitely a lot of interest from across the agricultural sector for the opportunities. I was with the minister in Europe earlier in the fall, and the interest from a range of agricultural sectors for opportunities—

Agriculture committee  The meat sector—beef and pork—was a big one, largely, where I was in Italy and looking at opportunities there, but there were others at trade shows. I wasn't at the trade shows, but there is a range, whether it's horticulture or even oils, and beef and pork. I would say that ther

Agriculture committee  Absolutely.

Agriculture committee  Yes, we are definitely aware of the report. It's probably worth pointing out that border management is not our department; it's CBSA that's at the border. As the minister laid out, CBSA has taken a number of actions at the border—such as increased verification—that have resulted

Agriculture committee  Again, my department is not in charge of that, and it's hard for me to comment on what someone else will do, per se. I will say, however, that there have been extra activities from the CBSA. It's not my area of expertise or my department, but for people who are caught breaking th

Agriculture committee  I apologize. I will speak English because I know the program names better in English. In the last budget, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, under the inclusive innovation agenda, announced a program called the “strategic innovation fund”, which prov

Agriculture committee  Can we better develop this type of program?