The opportunity to support the change under way in manufacturing technologies for the automotive sector is significant for Canada. It means shifting towards electrification as the main energy source, and that's actually a change to the entire vehicle.
We recognize the very significant strength of McMaster in this area. They have great, very deep research and connectivity with large automotive companies and a lot of very solid research performance that we can measure. We decided we would create a collaboration centre with McMaster to take our strengths and their strengths and combine them. We fit well with them in that our goal is to support the tiers 1, 2 and 3 suppliers in the supply chain that also need to pivot and see their technologies advance as part of this change in electrification for transportation.
Working side by side with McMaster, I think we can accomplish more. We can also optimize. We can bring our equipment into their facility. They have their equipment there, and we can use what the CFI has supported over the years and what the NRC has and make them work together. We owe it to the country that these things are connected so that we can have a bigger impact, so we're quite excited about the opportunity to work with McMaster very closely. They're a very strong player in the field.
