Thank you.
As we were preparing for this committee, we were looking for background materials. We found, from Statistics Canada, this document that was released on September 29, 2025. It's the “Survey on Research Activities and Commercialization of Intellectual Property in Higher Education, 2023”. In its findings, it states, “Colleges and CEGEPs more likely to provide support to small and medium-sized enterprises” and that “1 in 10 [research] partnerships (11.1%) and contracts (10.0%) were held with colleges or CEGEPs.”
Again, only 4% of tri-council funding is received. You talked about the baseline funding that you would like to see and the additional funding provided in the upcoming budget.
What is kind of disappointing to me is that this report, which was released in September.... When you go to the website today, it says “Date modified: 2025-10-14” and “This release has been removed from our website.” Do you have any idea why it may have been removed from the website by the government?