Thank you very much for the question.
I think we would certainly agree that there is a great potential in the polytechnic institutions like the one I represent. We are big institutions with tremendously talented students and tremendously talented faculties and we are very close to our industry partners. Every single program that we actually run has an advisory committee.
We're really close to SMEs. We know the challenges that SMEs have in terms of research, development, and the infrastructure you need. We can be responsive to SMEs in a way that other post-secondary institutions cannot. So we're making the case, I think quite modestly here, that we actually can help in the productivity issue that was mentioned earlier, because if, for example, we provide vouchers to SMEs for commercialization, we operate at that late stage and help SMEs at that late stage of commercialization, which is the example you're raising. I could give you several that we are engaged with.
We think we can make a difference in that we are very unique institutions, we're willing to do this work, and we are growing in our research capacity. What we're suggesting here, compared to the numbers we've heard from other people, is actually quite modest, but it would in fact make a start and move us along a track that we think is very good for Canada and very good for SMEs in particular.