Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you so much for coming. Well, I guess I'm the visitor. I've only been here once, and you've been here twice.
I have to tell you, this Canadian innovation commercialization program is exactly something many of us have thought about for a long while. It may be a pilot project and it may not be doing everything in terms of numbers we want, but I can tell you that if it wasn't a Conservative government in place it likely still wouldn't be in place, because we believe in entrepreneurial innovators. This gives them that opportunity in which the government is now going to become a partner to get something in place, which I actually want to talk about.
I'm actually on the international trade committee, and I can see the long way out for the opportunity for these small and medium-sized companies as they develop through the procurement. The government agrees and now this private or public company has a product they can actually take abroad. I think this is so exciting, because it gives our small and medium-sized businesses the opportunity in an area of procurement for government things that they didn't have.
I do have a question, and it's likely because I don't understand something. You have 375 applications and 27 were pre-qualified in that first round. Before we get to my question on something I might not understand, is there a balance of applications that are coming in through the four criteria?