Industry committee  At the outset, as I said in my remarks, the agency is focused on innovation and has a suite of programs meant to support businesses at various stages of their growth. It is also meant to support the innovation ecosystem. I referred to the fact that there are 35 colleges and universities.

Industry committee  With regard to your specific question on that front, I'm not going to speculate as to what the government will do, but with regard to—

Industry committee  We've leveraged $109.76 million.

Industry committee  As to the latter part of the question, it will be at the discretion of the government what they intend to do. For the time being, the advanced manufacturing fund, the $200 million, the program is still under way. There were two intakes for the program. There was the first intake that closed in October 2014, and a number of projects have been announced since.

Industry committee  The various projects will roll out. That was a $200 million program with two closed intakes, and we're undertaking the assessments of the various proposals as we speak and will put forward some recommendations.

Industry committee  The remainder of the funding remains to be committed, remains to be announced, and that funding—

Industry committee  However, we have additional programs, which I referred to, that support the manufacturing sector, and at this stage we are assessing—

Industry committee  The $920 million is the—

Industry committee  But to answer your question, since the creation of the agency, we've invested in 30 projects related to the automotive sector for a total of $48.5 million, which in return has leveraged close to $110 million.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  No. We were allocated $920 million back in 2013 for our second five-year mandate. Our mandate will end on March 31, 2019.

Industry committee  Maybe to take a few steps back before answering the specifics, when we assess each of the projects we receive, obviously we look at them in terms of the value for money, the projects' eligibility, and the impact these projects will have going forward. One of the things we're looking for is total project costs—the amount of funding that will be leveraged out of this—and also job creation, increasing revenues, and spillover benefits.

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, I referred in my opening remarks to the scope and the breadth of programs we have. We don't have specific amounts of funding allocated to the automotive sector or specific manufacturing sectors. It's based on the various projects and proposals that we receive for funding.

Industry committee  There have been various reports by the financial institutions and their chief economists and the Conference Board talking about what the performance of the manufacturing sector could be moving forward, and about its maybe benefiting from the lower loonie and increased demand in the United States.

Industry committee  Yes.