Agriculture committee  My apologies, Mr. Chair. There's a lag in the translation, so I [Technical difficulty—Editor].

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  My apologies. There are three things. The first is funding that was received as a result of the recent collective bargaining. The second is funding for the operations for the implementation of the food policy for Canada, and the third is funding as part of our initiative to recr

Agriculture committee  The first round of funding was about $4 million. Just to let you know, at this point we've already received 240 applications, projects representing pretty much the whole fund at this point. The fund will be replenished next year.

Agriculture committee  When we do have surplus property, we look to sell it. Then we take the funding that we receive from those sales and reinvest it in our research centres and in the infrastructure.

Agriculture committee  In addition, the department received funding to invest in young people through internships and also to help them get into the agricultural job market.

Agriculture committee  [Inaudible—Editor]

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  No.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for your question. The $745,000 is for grants to foreign recipients for participation in international organizations.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. I have a couple of examples. We have research facilities. We have 20 research centres across Canada. We lease space to some provincial governments, for example, so they can use our space. That would be a good example of sales and services related to r

Agriculture committee  The living laboratories initiative was part of the $70 million that was announced in budget 2017. It is a contribution over five years of $10 million. It is a nationwide network of sites where groups, both inside and outside the government, can collaborate to develop and implemen

Agriculture committee  Yes, this year we have approximately $5.6 million in royalties from licences, fees and intellectual property. Those amounts were collected last year, in 2017-18. They were deposited to the consolidated revenue fund, and now we are basically accessing that money and bringing it ba

Agriculture committee  They are funded out of statutory payments, not out of voted appropriations. The fund will be replenished in the following year. They come in for only one year.