The amount of money being devoted comes from different programs and agencies, but we thought the numbers I captured on slide 9 were probably the best summation of this: $365 million over the past 10 years is pretty significant, keeping in mind that those dollars are significantly leveraged from industry. It would be pretty difficult in the space to have leverage of at least 2:1, if not 3:1, for those monies. When we get further down to the deployment stage, that multiple could be even higher, 4:1 or 5:1 in the case of large-scale demos, for instance.
As for energy research priorities, yes, we do have in every one of our research activities a fairly well-established process whereby we solicit input from industry, provincial partners, university partners, and our expert scientists within the federal family to identify what those research priorities ought to be. Perhaps I could ask Nicole to describe that more fully. I guess what's new is that we have also now extended the discussion to some of our international partners. Especially during the past year and a half or so, we've had very close dealings back and forth with the U.S. Department of Energy. We have a very significant research establishment. Just to give you a ballpark sense of the dollars involved, we spend about $6.4 billion on energy annually in R and D. The United States shares many of the same challenges we do and is very keen to partner with Canada, which is seen as a leading nation in that space. We're quite enthusiastic about the prospect of doing more and more of those research projects together.