Grants and contribution programs, by their very nature, are funding programs that support a project that's led by the recipient. To give you a sense of the magnitude, the policy on transfer payments covers $82 billion over 700 programs. The diversity of the Gs and Cs is quite unique.
The intent of the buy Canadian policy is to consider extending it as a real opportunity to look at broader impacts.
In terms of the grants and contributions process, you have departmental programs, and they get their annual appropriation. When they want to put a project in place, they'll launch a call for proposals and receive applications. In the context of buy Canadian, they may put some buy Canadian provisions in the application stage. They might consider putting it at the assessment stage, including some provisions within the funding agreement. Once the funding is flowed through the funding agreement, there are standard monitoring and reporting procedures that are to be followed, as per the policy.
