Science and Research committee  Thank you very much for the question. Sometimes, a program is designed to get university results and target universities, which is fine. At some point, however, someone points out that colleges were forgotten. So we add “and colleges” to the instructions, but it doesn't work. In

Science and Research committee  That's sometimes the case, yes.

Science and Research committee  Even though the letter officially states “and colleges”, that is useless. We're really out of luck.

Science and Research committee  The colleges find themselves, in a way, in a situation that pits them against the rest of the world, so to speak. We help each other to try to put more water in the pool, so we can all have fun. There's a lot of collaboration between the colleges, partly because there's not enoug

Science and Research committee  Indeed, one of our main funders is FedDev Ontario, which is a regional development agency. It is very strong in making sure that some of the projects we choose to conduct are about clean transition and are as diverse as possible in the people who start or run companies. We cert

Science and Research committee  Yes, 95% of Canada's population is within 50 kilometres of a college, as is 86% of the indigenous population. So we're everywhere. Plus, the fact that we work mostly with local companies helps us improve local economic conditions. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, Niagara Co

Science and Research committee  Not really, no. It isn't based on inflation.

Science and Research committee  It was less, but it's not as if it was calculated with inflation, obviously. I can't tell you about 10 years ago off the top of my head. In the past few budgets...we've seen some injections post-COVID. There was an injection for the CCI program at NSERC. That was much—

Science and Research committee  It wasn't an inflation thing. It was more like an injection post-COVID for getting out of this—

Science and Research committee  I wouldn't know how to calculate the compound interest of inflation over the past 10 years. I can get back to you on this, certainly.

Science and Research committee  Thank you for the question. Sometimes, I am amused to think that universities have been around for a thousand years and colleges have only been around for 50 years, or so, in their present roles. College research has existed for only a few decades, from 20 to 50 years depending

Science and Research committee  This study by your committee is a good starting point. It gives the colleges an opportunity to talk to you and give you data and facts, which you can put in your study report. You've heard from Aurora College, a small northern college, and from my college, which is different. I t

Science and Research committee  Absolutely. Thank you. The shortness of the statement made me choose what I meant to discuss, but I'm glad you asked it as a question. Students are in every project we do. We're a college. We're there to educate students and prepare them for the life of success that they hope to

Science and Research committee  Yes, absolutely.

Science and Research committee  Yes. They go with outside companies or community partners to do their co-op terms, or they can work in the research department, for example. A lot of them do that.