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To encourage apple and tender fruit producers to develop a Weather Risk Mitigation Strategy to reduce potential adverse impacts caused by future weather conditions (the program was developed following an unseasonably warm spring in 2012 which caused some fruit trees across Ontario to bloom early and a subsequent frost causing severe damage to blooms and emerging fruit buds)

To catalyze aquaculture industry investment from the private sector, as well as other sectors, that:
(1) Improve the competitiveness of the Canadian aquaculture industry by encouraging an aquaculture sector that continuously develops and adopts innovative technologies and management techniques to enhance its global competitiveness and environmental performance;
(2) Position Canadian aquaculture products as having high value in the marketplace based on their environmental performance, traceability, and other considerations.

To assist Mi'kmaq and Maliseet First Nations (MMFNs) in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and the Gaspé Region of Québec, in the development of sound Fisheries Management and Governance practices for their commercial fishing enterprises moving towards an economically and environmentally sustainable integrated commercial fishery

To assist Canada's lobster fishery ensure its long-term sustainability and economic prosperity; To support industry efforts to maintain healthy lobster stocks in all lobster fishing areas and improve lobster abundance in areas where stocks have declined

To achieve a fair, sustainable, integrated commercial fishery on Canada's west coast, in which all commercial participants fish under common and transparent rules; To support higher standards of accountability for all resource users, through enhanced fisheries monitoring and report and strengthened collaboration, and enhanced cooperation amongst fisheries interests

To support the development of the new, cutting-edge energy technologies that are essential for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) and other air emissions in energy production, transmission, distribution and use

To encourage the deployment of low-impact renewable power in Canada by providing an incentive on the generation of electricity produced at qualifying projects

To support energy technology innovation to produce and use energy in a cleaner and more efficient way; To help in the search for long-term solutions to reducing and eliminating air pollutants from energy production and use

To support pre-competitive research, development and technology transfer activities in Canada's forest sector; To enable it to participate in niche products areas such as bioenergy, biochemicals, nanotechnology and advanced construction materials

To support projects that implement new technologies leading to non-traditional high-value forest products including bioenergy, biomaterials, bio-chemicals and next generation building products