Mr. Speaker, over the last six years these investments have enabled Canadian businesses to grow, Canadian entrepreneurs to create jobs and to create markets here and around the world. I referred earlier this week to the BlackBerry by Research in Motion which perhaps is the most obvious example of a Canadian success story enabled by Technology Partnerships Canada.
It takes between three and five years for these investments to produce returns. We have received over $20 million so far in royalties repaid to the government. We expect that all of these investments will be repaid to the Government of Canada.