Finance committee  I'll preface this by saying that across Canada there's no equivalent of what CUTRIC is in any of the provinces, except for Quebec. In Quebec we partner with InnovÉÉ and as well with some of the other innovation consortia, such as CRIAQ in aerospace. There's a history of innovat

Finance committee  That's a great series of questions. To respond to your query about the economic ask, you'll see in the brief that we've identified $185 million as the ask. To put it in context, that automotive partnership Canada fund I referred to was $145 million over four years, so it's about

Finance committee  Okay, sure, but those are the economic data, if you're interested.

Finance committee  For job creation numbers, the reality is that nobody has statistics on integrated advanced mobility numbers. We do have statistics we can use as rough guides. Automotive industry tends to work with a 1:9 ratio, so $1 invested results in $9 down the line in income, or one job to n

Finance committee  That's a great question, because one challenge we've highlighted to the government is that you people don't track the effects of your projects. What we have done at CUTRIC is we've said that, as part of this $185-million ask, we want to be obligated to track it, for the sheer rea

Finance committee  It won't be in that short brief. The automotive partnership Canada grant was originally funded by NSERC and SSHRC, along with the National Research Council. It was a very good program. Was it perfect? No. There are lessons to be learned, but it was a good program for that time, a

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thanks to all of the members here. It is a long name. It's a bit of a misnomer, though, because we do research and innovation projects in automotive, heavy-duty bus, rail, and transit applications. To take you through the high-level feedback

Finance committee  Using lightweight materials means removing steel to replace it with polymers, bio-fibres, or anything that's going to lighten the weight of the vehicle in order to reduce emissions. The third area is connected and automated vehicles, whether they be an application to a railcar,