Agriculture committee  Obviously, we want to work on the best management practices that we codevelop with the sector, with the partners, with the players and with the farmers. When they work with us on their farm at that level, that's probably the best recipe for success in demonstrating that it's work

Agriculture committee  I can give it a try. Do you want to know how long it takes to produce seeds or do you want to know how long it takes to decide—

Agriculture committee  I would roughly estimate that the breeding cycle takes about 10 to 12 years. If biotechnology is involved, that can shorten the cycle. The breeding process can be done faster, but it never takes less than 6 to 8 years. However, field evaluation in the agricultural setting still t

Agriculture committee  Actually, the regulatory component assesses the safety of genetic material released into the environment. Here in Canada, we have regulations in place for genetically modified organisms. At the moment, we're looking at how to regulate products made from clustered regularly inter

Agriculture committee  It's indeed important to make sure that the action we take is sustainable, when we plant trees and install windbreaks, for example. When we create permanent grasslands, it's important not to plow the fields, otherwise it won't help. Once the fields are plowed again, annual plants

Agriculture committee  It's located in New Liskeard? I will have to check into this—

Agriculture committee  What I would like to say on this, I think, is that it's an interesting list, a good list, and I am not necessarily disputing the list that you've provided, but I'd like to focus on information sharing. I think it's the heart of our activities in the living labs approach. It is to

Agriculture committee  Unfortunately, I don't have that information with me. In fact, it's part of the discussion that is led by some other officials in our department and is part of their activities in their work with the provincial government. Perhaps that's part of the negotiation, but I'm not privy

Agriculture committee  I think gene editing is a very important technology, like biotechnology in general. We've incorporated these technologies over the years in our breeding and activities at AAFC. That's an avenue we are exploring for ways to help us make advances in some of these genes that could b

Agriculture committee  No. I'm afraid I don't have an answer for that question. I know that we're consulting, but I don't have an answer.

Agriculture committee  I would say, from a departmental perspective, that these two diseases you mentioned are big items for the department to look at. From a science point of view, I think the science we do at AAFC is focused on animal husbandry. Animals that are sick, ill or affected by diseases are

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. I cannot really comment. That's a discussion at the provincial level between the University of Guelph and the producers, so I'm not privy to those discussions, and they should have—

Agriculture committee  If I may, Mr. Chair, I could add a couple of comments here. It's a good point. We have a number of mechanisms that we use to fund our research in partnership with industry. For the large commodities, often we refer to those, as we have the agriscience cluster in place to help t

Agriculture committee  On this particular component of plant breeding innovation and the use of biotechnology in general, yes, all of these tools are very useful. However, when you look at yields, it's usually many genes at a time, so to fix them one gene at a time may also be quite a challenging task.

Agriculture committee  Yes, transportation is a major contributing factor to our greenhouse gas emissions record, and we do account for it. The more economic gains there are in terms of transporting the original or processed product, the more positive the effect.