All right. Perhaps I can provide a quick snapshot of the Language Technologies Research Centre. It's a non-profit organization that has three founding partners: two federal agencies, including the NRC and the Université du Québec en Outaouais.
It's an organization whose annual budget is currently approximately $0.5 million a year, including all expenses. In addition to that are contributions from each of the three partners, totalling approximately $6 million a year. The NRC contribution of $2 million is stated in the 2003-2008 plan.
To achieve full impact and to secure a competitive advantage for Canadian researchers who work there—we're talking about some 30 researchers—the research centre would need a minimum of $6 million a year in addition to its $0.5 million budget. So its budget should be increased by at least 10 times.
Six million dollars would enable the centre to allocate approximately half of its budget each year to efforts to market the centre's inventions. Two research projects, one of which won an award, have been carried out in cooperation with the industry. These projects have commercial potential, but marketing efforts are obviously limited by the research centre's tight budget. In my opinion, this amount would make it possible to compete adequately with the large American centres that are currently doing the same type of research. I think $6 million a year would be one factor that would enable Canada to have the necessary strike force in research and development at the LTRC. Obviously, it is also extremely important that funding for the Language Industry Association be renewed, because it is these industries, those currently emerging, that take the research centre's achievements and market them for Canada's benefit.