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Finance committee  It is true that there are not.... I'll just step back. When we get the projects, we actually assess them and we look at them from a portfolio approach. We do look at it from a regional perspective, as well as a sectoral perspective. We have some projects that—

March 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Andrea Johnston

Finance committee  As I mentioned earlier, the core criteria is—

March 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Andrea Johnston

Finance committee  Thank you. Again, as I mentioned, we look at it from a public economic and innovation perspective. The other challenge is that the strategic innovation fund is kind of the fund at the end of the road in the sense that many companies start at NRC IRAP. They get funding there, an

March 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Andrea Johnston

Finance committee  The reality is that we assess the projects as they come in. It's not that we've rejected projects from Manitoba. We assess the projects as they come in. I would say there were hardly any projects that came in from Manitoba.

March 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Andrea Johnston

Finance committee  That's the number we negotiated in the contribution agreement.

March 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Andrea Johnston

Finance committee  I do. With that agreement, it was a SIF contribution of $40 million towards a project of $310 million. Under the contribution agreement, BlackBerry QNX committed to maintaining 293 jobs and creating 807 jobs, as well as supporting 1,000 co-op terms. It is also increasing QNX Ca

March 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Andrea Johnston

Finance committee  Correct.

March 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Andrea Johnston

Finance committee  We look at not only funding the R and D commercialization or the scaling-up in a manufacturing facility, but we also look at the economic benefit to Canada and the public benefit to Canada.

March 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Andrea Johnston

Finance committee  That number you referred to, the 6,000, was based on an ATIP request on a subset of data, so it does not compile all of the SIF jobs that have been created. As of now, there are 65 projects announced and approved under the strategic innovation fund. With the SIF contributions of

March 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Andrea Johnston

Finance committee  These are negotiated agreements. The projects are now starting to unroll. As we do the semi-annual reporting, we'll have a tracking system on the jobs.

March 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Andrea Johnston

Finance committee  These are 10-year projects.

March 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Andrea Johnston

Finance committee  There are jobs being created and maintained. These are the ones we are tracking.

March 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Andrea Johnston

Finance committee  Again, the projects are just commencing.

March 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Andrea Johnston

Finance committee  Yes, 67,000.

March 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Andrea Johnston

March 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Andrea Johnston