On some of the qualitative assessments of the measures that were announced on Monday, Minister Baird and/or Minister Flaherty are the ones who could perhaps best articulate the rationale behind the description of the changes.
Specifically on the social economy, I'm given to understand that those are a series of measures that were launched a couple of budgets ago, and the government has decided to conclude them. They affect a number of departments, not just industry.
On the granting councils per se—NSERC, Social Sciences and Humanities, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research—their core mandates were not reduced. There was some impact on the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council as it relates to the social economy envelope, but the core programs of the three granting councils, the Canada research chairs program, and their grants to support teaching assistance and research, were not affected.