I can only go back to 2008-09 as far as the investments that I've seen as far as science and technology is concerned. It has been billions and billions of dollars in all different areas, and you end up talking about the billion dollars that you have at this point in time.
Going back to 2009, and some of the things the government did, there was $750 million for leading-edge research infrastructure to the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, $50 million for the Institute of Quantum Computing in Waterloo to build a new world-class research facility, $110 million over three years to the Canadian Space Agency to support the development of advanced robotics, and $200 million over two years to the National Research Council's industrial research assistance program to enable it to temporarily expand its initiatives for small and medium-sized businesses.
We're going to be dealing with a study on initiatives for small and medium-sized businesses. I'm wondering if we could start by describing where that $200 million through your program is going and what you feel the advantages will be as we move forward in the future.