Thank you all for being here.
I'm going to start with Dr. Fassina, since you represent Okanagan College, which is close to home for me. The last time we met was actually at the Sustainable Building Technology Capstone Showcase for your sustainable building technologies program.
I want to ask a question about how colleges might be ideally placed for federal funding for projects and programs that really help to roll out federal policies.
We are facing a real climate crisis, as we know. Okanagan College's sustainable building program is a model for how we need to construct our infrastructure in the coming years and decades. Some of the projects we saw at that showcase were demonstrations of how to do deep retrofits on homes in a economical way that could drive local businesses and demonstrations of building climate-ready modular homes on first nations reserves.
It just seems that this kind of program should get funding matched across the country so that we can do the things we need to do.
I'm wondering if that's perhaps one way that colleges could gain more access to funding for these very applied projects to help roll out government policy to do the things we need to do.