This is an initiative happening around the University of British Columbia, and which I believe is centred in the Okanagan. To be honest, I'm not personally involved with it, because they have some consultants helping them to move this forward.
In answer to your question, the main point would be that all of these centres need local, regional, and national support in order to work, because without that, there just isn't enough operational or capital funding to put a centre together. It was attempted a number of years ago in B.C., and it fell apart at that time because they just didn't have the breadth of support that was required. The more conversations that are had with people at different levels, the better.
Because of FOODTECH Canada, we have been able to take enquiries from different people in B.C. and distribute them around the country to where it would be appropriate for them to get the technical support. It's a virtual approach to providing that technical support to them. One of the issues we have is that companies really need local space to incubate their product with technical support. They need a pilot plan and they need people who can help them through the issues they have. Where there are those facilities is where we see the product development happening.