Often these issues, as reported below, serve as a guide in the identification of possible research projects and for the allocation of resources within appropriate jurisdictions.
Committees also develop recommendations and actions via workshops, reviews or studies.
However, some issues are deemed to be of national significance and not resolvable by committees alone, and are forwarded to CARC for action. That CARC contact the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to encourage the continuation of adequate funding of research under the Minor Use of Pesticides Program. That agencies funding agricultural research exempt research proposals involving classical biological control research and development from criteria involving commercialization potential, and that such proposals be recognized as public good research because of the benefits that successful classical biological control research and development brings to the public as a whole. That R.J. Huggard mention support for soil surveys in his presentation to the Deputy Ministers . In addition to the above items, which were addressed to CARC, the various committees are dealing with a number of other issues, the scope of which is reflected in the list below.