Thank you, Dr. Singh.
Dr. Nantel, I have two post-secondary facilities in my riding, Okanagan College and Selkirk College. They're both small- to good-sized colleges, but they operate on that college model you talked about, where research is not paramount. It's operated in a more applied way.
You talked about the college and community innovation fund, 2% of our tri-council budget, and yet you listed off what sounded like very successful programs that are done with that funding. I'm just wondering if you could maybe expand on that.
At Okanagan College we have a sustainable building program that would be so useful for the green infrastructure we need for the future. At Selkirk College we have Metal Tech Alley and other things around the tech smelter that deal with advanced metal science.
I'm wondering if you could maybe expand on your ideas on how we can improve this to make it work better and on whether this model of how colleges do research could be better.