The proposition, if you will, the opportunity that they presented and what I think this program addresses, is to explore deeper mineral deposits, and in some cases to understand better the extent or scope of an existing deposit where there may be extraction activity.
What we heard, Mr. Chair, was that the the targeted geoscience initiative 4—its acronym is TGI-4—is helping global competitiveness, but the industry is telling us that the innovative tools and techniques developed by the program have resulted from specific innovations in this more targeted geoscience initiative. So far, I can tell you that 45 TGI-4 innovations have in fact been adopted by industry within their mineral exploration program.
By any standard, it's a great return on an investment and obviously significant advancements in the more targeted exercise of the geoscience initiative.