Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all our witnesses for coming tonight. We very much appreciate that.
Through you, Madam Chair, to Mr. Hepburn of Mitacs, when I saw that your company was on the list, I knew I had worked with Mitacs at one point. I looked at it, and in the fall of 2020, when I was a provincial minister in Nova Scotia, we partnered—I guess you could call it—with Mitacs and invested $1 million to provide up to 250 internships for university and college students to work with local business. I remember at the time hearing stories regarding the talent development and entrepreneurship of former Mitacs interns. I know Dalhousie, for example, partners quite a bit with Mitacs.
Can you explain to us the value of these partnerships and how they support the development of student talent?