You're right. We do collect all sorts of data. There are two or perhaps three interesting data points to back up the importance of that fund and the absence of it affecting Canadian transfer in a negative way.
Number one, in 2003, licensing revenue by the Canadian institutions was $72 million. For perspective, it's $62 million now, 14 years later. It peaked in 2003, and then it dropped.
Another really important point, and Mr. Porter touched on this, is that funding allowed for continued education of faculty members. It should come as no surprise that a peak in invention disclosures.... If you look at it in five-year intervals, in 2009 there were 1,921 invention disclosures, so [Technical difficulty—Editor] closer to 1,800. You can see that we had a peak and now we have a drop-off.
The third statistic I wanted to point out [Technical difficulty—Editor] start-up companies. In 2003, there were 58 start-up companies, and that dropped to 48 in 2009, so we had a significant drop-off, perhaps with the lack of manpower in those offices.
I just wanted to give you some statistics.