Finance committee  That was a very good point. Building on the example I used earlier of the Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform, there's another one. Recently, Minister Bains announced the creation of the new Fraunhofer Institute at McMaster University, which is focused on bioen

Finance committee  Are you interested in firm-specific or maybe a consortia...?

Finance committee  Earlier, I referred to some of the things we are trying to do in leveraging the innovation ecosystem that exists in the region and creating that type of collaboration in Ontario to make sure various key players and actors are working together. There is a project called the South

Finance committee  To complement the president in terms of your question, in terms of manufacturing, the president stated in her opening remarks that we have more than 200 projects. Given the importance of manufacturing in Ontario, obviously, it's a key sector in which we'll invest. There has been

Finance committee  It's not the return. In return, it's the investments we are leveraging from the companies themselves, or from the various entities.

Finance committee  Exactly.

Finance committee  Yes. All the programs we have ask for some leveraging.

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. I would like to provide the following explanation about the fluctuations that you mentioned. Those fluctuations are also a representation of the funding that the agency received. In her remarks, the president mentioned at the outset that we are now h

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. In this case, it was a reflection of the fact that most of our programs had changed. In our first mandate, we had programs geared toward prosperity, for instance, but in the second mandate, following our consultations, many programs were changed. In t

Finance committee  Thank you. Our agency was created in 2009 only. So it is a rather young organization. As I mentioned before, we are in the middle of the second five-year mandate. The other regional economic development agencies, that were created in 1987, as I recall, benefit from a rolling bud

Finance committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair. It's a not-for-profit organization that is working very closely with manufacturing companies to support their efforts to train and retrain their employees when they're adopting new technologies or new processes and when they're investing in