Agriculture committee  It's predominantly on reserve.

Agriculture committee  We have filled that gap where the big five banks won't go.

Agriculture committee  Oh, absolutely.

Agriculture committee  Yes, absolutely. On an individual farm basis, we have operators who are at the highest level of technology. It's quite a spectrum of first nations farmers that we deal with. Large cash crop farmers don't take a back seat to any other farmer in terms of technology adoption, but in

Agriculture committee  We haven't really looked at that analysis. In Ontario, we have a large group of cash crop farmers who are into wheat, soybean and corn production, and certainly a lot of soybeans get exported. We have some pork producers involved in pork production. That's typically an export bus

Agriculture committee  Not a lot. Our organization is driven by agricultural lending, and a lot of the opportunities in food production that are emerging in the north are not at the commercial stage, or borrowing stage, if you will. We certainly get inquiries about production on a project-by-project

Agriculture committee  I really—

Agriculture committee  Well, the most recent surge in interest and expansion is within the maple syrup sector, as Chief Louis mentioned. I'm not familiar with anyone who is engaged in wine production at this point in time. Our role is really.... We're working more with individual first nations member

Agriculture committee  Are you referring to what they call the Pathfinder service?

Agriculture committee  It's the Pathfinder service.

Agriculture committee  With regard to the Pathfinder service, as I understand it, that service was created in the last year or so. IAPO as an organization has not utilized it, because we actually have very good relationships and contacts within Agriculture Canada. However, the approach looks very promi

Agriculture committee  Yes. Today in Canada, agricultural extension really has been given to the provinces as a duty, a responsibility. Ag Canada obviously focuses on other areas of expertise. Within that context, if we go back to my story about the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, we had robust farm extensio

Agriculture committee  Well, you can't have an apparatus without funding.

Agriculture committee  Chief Louis and I went to Montreal recently to speak about past experiences with regard to Growing Forward, now CAP. A commitment to indigenous agriculture has to be part of that framework, and it's not. It's stated, but there's no explicit requirement from the feds to make the p

Agriculture committee  With regard to the nutrition north program, I don't have a lot of experience or expertise with it, and I've never evaluated whether the outcomes are working or what they are achieving. I'm more rooted in southern Ontario. I would say anecdotally, though, from comments we hear f