Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good evening everyone.
Three amendments to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Act are being proposed in the bill. I will describe them very briefly.
The first and perhaps most important is to separate the roles of president and chairperson of the governing council. Currently these two roles are combined and held by the same person.
The second is to simplify the language to describe the responsibility of the governing council to establish policies and to clarify to whom certain powers can be delegated.
The third would ensure that the French version of the act is clear because the term “président” is used to refer to both the chair of the Governing Council and the organization's chief executive officer. This creates confusion.
These three changes will modernize the governance of our agency. I'd be happy to answer questions you may have.