Thank you very much. My name is Marcel Turcot, and I am the director general of policy at the National Research Council of Canada, or NRC.
The NRC provides small and medium-sized businesses with access to centres, plants and other infrastructure. These are facilities they could not build themselves. The NRC provides businesses with expertise they wouldn't otherwise have. They're able to test out new products and grow their research and development knowledge to improve goods and services processes for Canada.