Mr. Chair, could I respond to that?
It's currently not designed as a fund that's out there for a request for proposals. It's a partnership fund designed around four or five key priorities with FPInnovations.
The board of FPInnovations comprises industry members from across Canada, the provinces, and some academic people as well. In most regions of the country they've gone out and negotiated collaborative arrangements with universities and with provinces more focused on the regional issues.
For example, there's a very active agenda being developed in Ontario, and one in Newfoundland and Labrador. I'm not sure about Nova Scotia, specifically, but certainly we've worked very closely with the firms in Nova Scotia, as well as with the Nova Scotia government. Some of the priorities around that agenda are around setting the agenda for future investments, things like nanotechnology, things like unique attributes of the Canadian fibre so as to get a competitive advantage in applications in, say, specialty pulps, as well as uniquely Canadian shelter systems using wood, the non-residential use of wood in terms of construction. So there are a number of priorities, designed around setting an agenda for the future.
If there are specific interests from some of your firms or organizations, I'd be quite happy to take them and forward them to FPInnovations for consideration. They've been very active out there, actually, in dealing with firms across the country.
We also have a value-added wood program that we partner with the provinces and the industry and FPInnovations in putting what we call industrial advisers out in the field. And they actually visit individuals--mainly small value-added firms--to give advice on process control, on marketing, and on investment in terms of making them more productive and more competitive.