Agriculture committee  I think having a centre, having people who are focusing on the industry to help them with their development is key. If what we have done in P.E.I., in particular, and I think other provinces can learn from it is to.... When we have a company with the potential to get into a new p

Agriculture committee  I can't say just Scotch because it's for whisky globally. Yes, I'm a Scotch.

Agriculture committee  Our approach is to be collaborative. We have the FOODTECH Canada organization network across the country, and we have another network that we belong to called Innoventures Canada, which includes the National Research Council, Saskatchewan Research Council, and the other research

Agriculture committee  This is an initiative happening around the University of British Columbia, and which I believe is centred in the Okanagan. To be honest, I'm not personally involved with it, because they have some consultants helping them to move this forward. In answer to your question, the mai

Agriculture committee  Thank you. Yes, I would like to continue. As well as the fruit-related examples, there's one example I think is very important, because it shows you the unexpected consequences. We've been working for many years on what's called “supercritical fluid extraction”, which is the use

Agriculture committee  For brevity, probably one of the best examples from Prince Edward Island is Island Abbey Foods. They produce a product called “honibe”, which is a solid honey. They came to us a number of years ago and asked if it was possible to make a solid honey. Honey bottles are often made o

Agriculture committee  I think it's something that is underutilized Most of the companies we work with are small to medium-sized companies. Most of them tend to work with their own resources, their family resources, and many are not looking to grow significantly. One of the things we're doing in Prin

Agriculture committee  First of all, I'll apologize for my lack of French. I'm the executive director of BioFoodTech in Prince Edward Island. I'll talk about that first of all, and then I'll talk about FOODTECH Canada, which is a network of food technology centres. First of all, BioFoodTech is an org