Speaking from a university perspective, I think one of the attractions of the Mitacs program as it currently exists is the diversity of opportunities it creates. Mitacs internships are really placed across the spectrum of industry, and increasingly in not-for-profit organizations.
You mentioned the minister's trip overseas. There's another dimension to that which is relevant to Mitacs and relevant to the universities. I spoke today about Accelerate, which is the flagship program, but as I'm sure many of you are aware, Mitacs runs a suite of different types of programs. One of them is the Globalinks program, which effectively recruits students away from targeted countries to come to work in the Canadian context, to study in Canadian universities, to have internship opportunities in Canadian universities.
One of the other great successes of Mitacs, just in terms of developing highly trained personnel for the Canadian R and D economy, is that more than 90% of Mitacs' interns in the Accelerate program end up staying in Canada and working in Canada. I think that's another benefit that's not a negligible one.