I was putting these new direct support mechanisms for business R and D in perspective, because I think it's a response to the cuts that have happened to the SR and ED program last year.
My point was that we took some of this money to provide new direct support mechanisms for private companies to perform research and development. So you have recapitalization of the automotive innovation fund. You've had a recapitalization of the SADI program for our aerospace innovation, plus some additional money. The first two sectors got some money.
And there's a new fund for FedDev Ontario, available for events and manufacturing projects in southern Ontario.
Let me just put it this way. If you are a manufacturer not in southern Ontario, not in forestry, automotive, or aerospace, you don't get what you lost under SR and ED with this new program. So the point was that the fund that will be implemented in southern Ontario, for example, could maybe become a model to be applied across the nation without regional economic development agencies.
In last year's budget there was some money announced for Western Economic Diversification for innovation. We haven't seen this program yet, and it's been one year now since the announcement.