Thank you very much, Mr. Marston. You're absolutely correct that a previous government did cut science and technology. I'm absolutely convinced that caused the brain drain in Canada that we all remember.
We have taken an entirely different approach. In every single budget of ours, we've increased science and technology. We are now at historic, record amounts, close to $12 billion. Indeed, this particular budget, I'm proud to say, had an additional $1.1 billion for science and technology.
I will let my friend, Bruce, respond to this shifting of funds, the millions of dollars, because there is a specific reason why. But just to set out the profile of FedDev Ontario now, the key is to focus a little more on, and give a little extra attention to, the hardest hit areas in the southern Ontario group of areas. Those would include, of course, places like Windsor where we focused very hard, Peterborough, the Niagara region, and others.
Some of the programs also had criteria that focused on areas with fewer than 500,000 people. The reason we would do that is the diversification of the local economy angle. Some towns, as you well know, are one industry towns and we felt that if we were going to make a long-term impact.... Obviously, in the beginning we worked very hard to save the jobs in those one industry towns, but as we moved forward, we wanted to make sure that if we could, we would have two or three industries in a town to protect it in the long-term and more solidly in the event of another economic downturn 10 years from now or, hopefully, never.
Those were two reasons that some areas may not have seen the funding from a particular program that others did, but overall I think there's been a great balance of funding between things like the KIP program, the community adjustment fund, the RInC program, and the programs FedDev operates.
With respect, in a few seconds, Bruce can explain to you why the numbers were shifted around. Most of it's due to Treasury Board suggestions.