I am interested in some of the Industry Canada comments on how vote 35 assisted with a knowledge infrastructure program that had been expedited.
I had the pleasure of being in Simcoe County on Friday, where Minister Milloy from Dalton McGuinty's Liberal government, along with Minister Goodyear from the Canadian government, were there announcing a project for Georgian College that was substantial in size. It was a $65 million project, of which the provincial and federal governments contributed $20 million each.
They said at the time of the announcement that 181 construction jobs were created starting on July 1. When it actually opens a year and half from now, there would be 400 full-time and part-time jobs. I thought these job numbers were wonderful and spoke to a story that's not getting out there enough.
Do you have similar job numbers that you're hearing back from colleges involved in these programs? Are you hearing that there's going to be significant jobs created like that one, but across the country?