I'll just start by reminding this esteemed committee that in budget 2017 we have the superclusters. It will be $900 million-plus that will go to areas such as agriculture, agrifood, advanced manufacturing, clean tech, and clean energy.
The Canada first research excellence fund invests in research across the country. Last September we made an investment of $900 million in areas such as neuroscience, agriculture and agrifood, and quantum computing. These are really areas where Canada has tremendous strengths and can lead.
As I said, I was at the National Science Foundation. They want to partner with Canada. They want to see our good Arctic research, quantum research, neuroscience research, and—again, I'll highlight—biodiversity research.
Lawrence, would you like to talk a bit about CFREF?