Maybe I could add to my comments just from a bit of a different perspective. I don't know all of the details of the program. What I do know are things that would help us, and maybe I could articulate those and then you can determine whether the program can in fact address them or not.
One of the things in the last year that I've seen with program review and the strategic review is that it's more difficult to get departments to engage in innovations when they already have such a full plate of things to do. If there were some incentive for government DGs, directors, to get involved in supporting some of this innovation, it would be very helpful. That goes towards trying to find a testing department, of course, that will test the products and give you feedback because they also have priorities in terms of their work that they have to do day to day. If we can somehow provide some incentives there, that would be very useful.
I would like to see some clarification of intellectual property policies, Treasury Board policies, made to people at the working level in government, because there's a lot of confusion about intellectual property. In the context of CICP this becomes important. I'd like to see government staff more broadly at the director and DG level understand intellectual property, really what it means, and understand the Treasury Board policies around this.
We talked about the procurement processes and trying to streamline those as much as possible. I guess the other thing I could add is if government can understand what capabilities small and medium companies have to offer. You often see large programs involve large companies. The government feels they need to have large companies front and centre because there's a lot of money at stake. I think if government also knew what small and medium companies had in terms of capabilities, perhaps there would be a better way to integrate them in that work.
I can't answer about the program specifically because I don't know all the details about it, but I can offer some of the things we'd like to see fixed, and perhaps the program could address some of those.