I guess the department with the most overlap with our mandate would be Environment and Climate Change Canada. We already had a fair bit of collaboration happening at the bench scientist level. It was happening. Scientists do what scientists do. They go to conferences to present their papers, which is an early peek at something that will be formally published later. It's a chance for other scientists to kick the tires so to speak. At those conferences, they meet people with neat ideas they hadn't thought of, and they get together and then they talk about collaborating on new science. In that general process our scientists have come across Environment and Climate Change Canada's scientists, and they were collaborating.
Before I answer it completely, I don't want to leave the impression that nothing was happening, but given this government's mandate, given our minister's mandate letter, we needed to formalize it. So at my level, with Environment and Climate Change Canada, we formalized an MOU, which we both signed, and we have a work plan. In that work plan, I'd say a third of it is something that staff were already doing, but we have new areas that we're going to grow into. This is using existing monies. This is not an opportunity to grab more money. It's just that in these areas where we're working, we can collaborate better. So we'll stay in our own funding envelopes, but we collaborate on the science.