No, under that cap...you have to have a name on certain things. But certainly we have the ability within that name—the Innovation Fund—to take good ideas to commercialization. We can do it within that. So we'll look at every aspect, every case-by-case situation, and assess it on which is the best road forward. If it looks like a really good idea, we'll be there, and then help them leverage other groups that are around there. You need someone to quarterback. As you know, there are often good ideas all across the country, and some are done in silos and they don't know.
Researchers are great at research, but as soon as they find what they are looking for, it goes over there. This piece needs to be put with that piece from B.C., and that's what we're hoping and striving to do with all of this, from an agricultural perspective, with that $50 million in Budget 2011. We've had similar programs, DIAP and others, that sought to do those things, and they were very successful. Very often it doesn't take a lot of money to move things to the next step and push them beyond. So we're looking forward to getting that in place. As you know, that budget bill passed a short time ago, so now we'll be working out the program spending on that. Some $11 million will go out this fiscal year, and then the next will come out in year two. It's a two-year program.
On the $200 million cap, that's a number; it's a cap. I can assure you there isn't that kind of money in that account. That account is sitting in Winnipeg at the Canadian Wheat Board. It's not my money; it's not farmers' money. It's money that is in the contingency fund and has always been held separately from the pools. The contingency moneys have always been made up from profits the Wheat Board has generated on hedging, on contracts, even on making money on money, and all the different things they do from their business standpoint. Then it's used to promote the business of the Canadian Wheat Board within the Canadian Wheat Board. There will be some lab settings and different things like that out of those fundings.
The board approached us last spring just before the election to ask us to raise the cap to $100 million. We looked at what they were proposing to do with it. We agreed, but it took until this fall to get it done, with the election in the way, and so on. It was already in play, but we just had to go through the legalities of Treasury Board and so on.