Agriculture committee  We can certainly provide you a number of success stories for those products and those centres. I don't have success stories at the tips of my fingers here, but I—

Agriculture committee  I'm back. I live in Mr. Drouin's riding. He's going to have to work on getting us better Internet in Alexandria.

Agriculture committee  Yes, absolutely. I think the common thread is the fact that a lot of those companies are not having their own the capacity to do this. Therefore, the joining of efforts, the ability to benefit from this incubator type, has enabled them to move forward. In the stories we are goi

Agriculture committee  Indeed, the government could certainly put in place certain measures. For example, the issue of taxation is important. We have heard several comments in this regard. Tax rebates and investments for research should also be easier to obtain than at present. Canada's Scientific Rese

Agriculture committee  We don't have the same means as the United States, but we still have means proportional to the size of our country. We can't always look on the other side and tell ourselves that we can't do anything like them because they are much bigger than we are. We can do things. We can be

Agriculture committee  Obviously, there are investments to be made in infrastructure. This is sort of what we are proposing when we talk about broadening the financing with regard to capital investment. This must be done on the side of universities, but it must also be done a great deal on the side of

Agriculture committee  Yes, the only thing I want to mention is that Canada often tends to give tax credits, but we also need direct funding. Many of these companies are going to have a hard time putting money on the table for construction. The government needs to find partnerships with them. I gave

Agriculture committee  Thank you for your question. Indeed, we heard from our members that there was a problem. Often, access to funding programs requires job creation. But when we talk about automation, we are not really talking about job creation initially, but probably about new training and change

Agriculture committee  It is obvious that our neighbour to the south poses a problem for us when it comes to investments. We could give you many examples where fantastic research and innovations have been done in Canada, but commercialized in the United States, because that's where the money is. It is

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Finnigan. Good afternoon, and thank you for giving the Agri-Food Innovation Council a chance to provide recommendations as you study processing capacity in Canada. The Agri-Food Innovation Council has been in existence since 1920. It is a unifying voice for resea

Finance committee  We need to ramp up innovation. We're at a stage where we're competing against a number of players throughout the world and they're investing significant amounts of money in innovation. We've made some progress in the last few years. The investment the government has made in the

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. From potato farmers using technology to adapt to climate change to the rise of AI in food processing, research and innovation have brought the agri-food sector to new heights. I know that the chair has some familiarity with agricultural innovation

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I appreciate being here today, especially with two great organizations beside me. It's nice to talk about this important issue. Within the presentation and the document we sent out, we provided three recommendations for action. I heard Mr. Shipley