Thank you very much. I was just in Halifax last week talking to your former colleagues.
We in fact delivered 600 internships in Nova Scotia, so we not only spent the million dollars the Nova Scotia government gave us but we supplemented that with the money provided generously by the federal government.
The internships in Nova Scotia are critical for keeping the talent that places like Dalhousie and Acadia and other universities in Nova Scotia attract to the province. We were at a celebration of start-up companies, young entrepreneurs who'd been aided by both our programs and the Lab2Market program out of Dalhousie University, which trains young entrepreneurs. They've established companies in Nova Scotia and they're going on to success.
I have many, many success stories of companies we have supported. Graphite Innovation and Technologies, for example, develops coating for ship's hulls that prevents biofouling and thus reduces fuel costs by a large percentage. It's good for the environment and good for shipping costs.