Thank you for your question.
The money will be used to fund BCIP projects. BCIP is a really successful program in which innovators submit ideas and they are tested by the National Research Council to determine whether they are truly innovative. About one third or so are deemed to be innovative.
The program links up these innovations with departments to test them and do trials. In essence, these companies with innovations get their first customer. Their first customer, being a government department, gives them both the benefit of having their product in use and also the benefit of being able to say that they have a customer in the Government of Canada, to aid further commercialization and marketing of their product.
These funds, requested as part of the supplementary estimates, are to fund those BCIP projects. They will eventually be moved over to ISED next year and will fund the program as part of the Innovation Canada suite of programs.