Thank you for the question.
Mr. Chair, as granting councils the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council provide funding for research deemed worthy in educational institutions across the country. RMC is an accredited university with a robust research capacity, and so some of the projects of the researchers at RMC were deemed to be worthy of funding from the council.
This supplementary estimate serves to transfer money from the granting council appropriation to DND, money that will ultimately be given to RMC to fund the research and, in a couple of cases, research chairs.