Merci. That's a great question.
The notion of applied research is the second half of the work that the Canadian college system and CEGEPs do. We provide the human capital, but also the innovation, in an applied manner. When we work with our industry partners, we are solving real-world problems, and that can be implemented and used immediately.
Has the potential of the Canadian college and CEGEP system been maximized and leveraged? No, it has not. We have an opportunity to do more.
From a federal government perspective, in the past you have greatly supported the university sector in this country, and that's been wonderful, but I would argue that the college system has been under-resourced from a federal funding perspective in terms of the capacity for us to unlock and unleash the research potential in colleges. That's number one.
Number two, because we are in every single community, is that the research we do does not live just in large multinational businesses. We are here to support the small and medium-sized business sector too. As we all know, in talking about backbone, the backbone of the Canadian economy is the small and medium-sized businesses that live in our communities. If a business has access to a college—or a CEGEP in rural Quebec—where they can go and solve a real-world problem in a quick manner, it is going to help out that business locally. That's a big bang for your dollar, if you will.