Thank you, Mr. Trottier, for the question.
I can certainly appreciate the difficult priority-setting challenges you have. In fact, I can recall very recently one of the individuals who appeared before you who simply said, we need a lot of money and we need it for a long time. We would probably agree with that statement, but we appreciate the need for us to be very transparent and accountable, and we appreciate the circumstances that we find ourselves in.
The two factors that we would look at most closely are really very much a part of the way we evaluate success, and in fact the way our current funder, the majority funder we have, through HRSDC evaluates the success of the enabling fund. That is through leveraged funds and also through concrete partnerships that are established.
There are two very precise criteria. If I may elaborate very briefly, the leveraged piece of that is critical because it talks not about the road map being an expense but rather an investment. When we look at every dollar spent—and we made reference to this in our presentation—for the past year we can demonstrate $1.07 of immediate leverage generated in the economy to more than 100%. If we look across the country at the investment, there is $69 million going through the enabling fund over the five years. The average across the country is actually a three-to-one ratio. There's a clear value there that's being generated, and something I think we can speak very boldly to taxpayers about and let them know that we are doing wonderful things with a relatively minimal investment in this space of economic development.