Thanks for the question.
In fact, we have announced agreements with six provinces and one of the territories so far. We expect that other announcements with respect to agreements with the provinces are imminent. At the end of the day, several hundred significant infrastructure projects will be undertaken at universities, colleges, and so forth across the country.
For the knowledge infrastructure program in particular, Industry Canada was allocated $500 million from vote 35. That represents five-sixths of our normal annual contributions budget. Without that money, we would not have been able to make the commitments we have, and the further commitments we will make, to the provinces and to these institutions. We would not have been able to do that until supplementary estimates were approved. As a result of this $500 million that we got through vote 35, together with the $500 million that was approved through the Budget Implementation Act, the statutory authority, we are able to expand greatly the amount of activity that will be carried on this summer.
I don't have with me estimates of the aggregate number of jobs that will derive from all of these projects. We just don't have it yet. The agreements are coming out so quickly that I just don't have those numbers. The number of projects will be in the hundreds—they will be right across the country—and the expectation is that the job creation will be significant, both during the construction building and renovation phase, and in subsequent phases where in fact the facilities are new.