Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Generally for the west or for Manitoba?

Finance committee  The WINN program is delivered across all four western provinces, as you know. We get a tremendous number of applications and proposals from British Columbia and Alberta, a smaller number from Saskatchewan, and the least from Manitoba. As my colleague was saying, we've been trying

Finance committee  One out of every 11 so far in our first two intakes. It may come down. We've just completed our third intake and Minister Bains announced one of those successful projects yesterday in Vancouver. You'll see more of those announcements coming out in the next few days. I would belie

Finance committee  It depends. If you separate out the special programs on infrastructure that we're asked to deliver, our core budget is about $127 million a year.

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  We have no dedicated program in that area. Funds we take in for supporting those areas, which are only a small number of projects, come off the funds that we could be directing to other priorities.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Could I add to that?

Finance committee  In terms of the $25 million in the budget, there was an expectation that regional development agencies as a collectivity would double their investments in clean tech, from a baseline in 2015-16 of just under $50 million to $100 million. WED has a relatively small budget in compa

Finance committee  We don't have a dedicated program for trade and investment and market expansion, but we do receive projects and proposals from time to time in and around helping SMEs get to international markets and international shows, not in terms of the specific example or the specific questi

Finance committee  It's $157 million.

Finance committee  We don't have numbers on how many of those jobs are still...but as you said, these projects are helping to train people in large vehicle work. This is mobile. We would expect and hope that people trained in these skills programs would have the ability to find work outside Alberta

Finance committee  Since 2013, not just in Alberta, we've supported 10 indigenous economic growth projects with about $13-million worth of investment. A lot of those projects have been focused on skills in trades. I believe the number is about 750 skilled or trade jobs created in indigenous communi

Finance committee  Industrial research assistance program.