I think we're shaking our heads a little bit on this. We haven't been given what we would call a credible reason not to continue the centre. As for some of the issues raised recently in terms of the centre having outlived its usefulness, well, that couldn't be further from the truth; the 60 to 70 or 70 to 80 letters of support from industry dictate otherwise. The support from the Atlantic provinces dictates otherwise. There is broad-based support for the centre.
It's important to note here as well that the comparison has been made to the Atlantic Innovation Fund and how it could replace the loss of CCFI. AIF is a great program, but it focuses on large-scale, multidisciplinary commercialization research. It's a multi-million-dollar project. So the $60 million in R and D that's been referred to maybe funded 10 to 15 projects. And that's good stuff; don't take anything away from that. But we take a million dollars as an organization, leverage that at a five-to-one rate, and fund 50 to 70 projects overall as an organization on a yearly basis. What industry often needs are short-term projects that solve existing challenges in the industry or identify new opportunities—generally projects less than $200,000 to $300,000. They don't have the resources or the interests to pursue these large-scale initiatives. Certain groups can, and that's a great thing, but you can't take away from what we do as an organization. There will be a void without us. There's no organization out there to fill the void in the absence of the centre.