The committee member is quite right to point out that all of those sectors are different. We talk about clean tech as if it were one thing. The five natural resource sectors, three of which have just been referenced here, have very different levels of maturity when it comes to their ability to innovate.
In the case of energy and forestry, we certainly have a fairly mature set of innovators and players. For mining, there is clearly much less so. We're very much at a nascent stage of trying to develop an ecosystem that would help to bring those companies and solutions to the marketplace. Right now, they're not very active at it.
As you probably heard from the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister, budget 2017 is expected to have a particular focus on innovation. The clean-tech component of it will most certainly be referenced there. It is expected that some measures in that regard will be announced very shortly. We've been working quite closely with each of those sets of players, including industry associations and large investors, to come up with some measures, some of which were announced in budget 2016.
We had $200 million worth of announcements, mostly focused on the energy sector. There was a $50-million oil and gas demonstration fund, which was seen as an early, must-do investment given the sheer scale of the challenge involved in transforming the sector and lowering its environmental impact. There was also a $62-million investment for electric vehicles. The transportation area was clearly seen as a key priority area for both the federal and provincial governments. We heard that again throughout the course of the past year in pan-Canadian forums and discussions with provinces, in which many of them listed it as a top priority for them. We also committed some $80 million for energy R and D funding in that duration.
In parallel to this, the committee members referenced forestry. The IFIT program is also carrying out its good work of infusing demonstration projects right across the country, many of which were announced very recently. On the mining side, there is less activity thus far. We're hoping that the next tranche of investments will get to it.