That's a great point, and I welcome the opportunity to expand on the importance of infrastructure funding.
Colleges exist across our nation, as do universities. Colleges are connected to industry, business and community. Everything that we do touches our partners, and our learning is all part of how we touch those businesses and industries. With our faculty and our curriculum, it's all about building economic growth through research, through client projects and through entrepreneurship.
I would emphasize that Fanshawe College every single year provides 1.6 billion dollars' worth of economic business and economic goodness to our region. Infrastructure projects provide jobs, but more important than that, they provide the fuel for colleges to interact with business, community and industry. They provide the skilled labour to be able to propel our economy forward, particularly in a post-COVID environment.