Thank you for the question. I'm director general of policy at the National Research Council.
What we are intending to do with this measure is speed up the operations of the NRC so we can better work with our Canadian business partners and academic innovators. At the NRC, we often have to procure pieces of scientific equipment in order to perform our research services and technical services with our collaborators and clients. We perform R and D services for those clients. The purpose of the measure is to speed up that process so that we're not having our clients wait six months to a year for us to process the paperwork through the normal cycle.
What we would like to do is have an increased speed of operations so that we have a more rapid response and more effective partnerships with our clients, overseen by a procurement oversight board that will ensure that we have all the appropriate mechanisms in place.