We want to redouble our efforts on what has been successful. The strategic innovation fund has been a tool that's helped generate tens of thousands of jobs—more than 65,000 jobs. We've approved more than 46 projects. Through the program, we've made direct investments totalling $1.2 billion, which have helped leverage the $15.3 billion that I mentioned in my opening remarks as well. This has benefited all aspects of the Canadian economy. Obviously, the automotive sector and the aerospace sector have done well, but so have other parts of the economy that are really important.
In particular, in P.E.I., which you're very familiar with, there was a BioVectra announcement. This announcement will help create and maintain 450 jobs, so this is a significant footprint. This investment will really help, and we invested $37.5 million, which will help leverage an additional $110 million.
These are the types of investments we want to see. Our goal going forward is to work with industry to find additional opportunities.