Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'll dive right in then. My questions are for Ms. Amyot, from Colleges and Institutes Canada.
Ms. Amyot, I'd like to help the committee understand what college centres for technology transfer and innovative social practices, known as CCTTs, are. It's an innovative concept that started in Quebec, my neck of the woods, actually, the lower St. Lawrence region. The idea was to address specific applied research needs, mainly for Bombardier.
Quebec's regions are home to 59 CCTTs currently. Drawing inspiration from Quebec, Canada established technology access centres, or CATs, in 2010. However, CCTTs and CATs do not have equal status when it comes to funding. In the rest of Canada, CATs receive $350,000 in funding; whereas Quebec's CCTTs receive just $100,000.