Okay, sure. This is in no particular order. I'm trying to think of what's prominent in my own mind, about what's important to me and to moving forward on the international review panel report.
The first one was that they recommended some clarity of governance issues. Where are some of the funding decisions being made? Is it a governing council? Is it at the scientific directorate table?
We've accepted that recommendation of clarity. So what we've done already is reorganize the committee structure under governing council. We've created a new committee called the research and knowledge translation committee, which will be the point place where final funding decisions are made on grant allocation, after council makes its envelope decisions.
They also recommended that council devolve that border between governance and management decisions down to management, so that council becomes more of sort of a governing body. Council has a retreat in the summer to discuss that, and has already accepted that, and we are moving forward with that. I think that's a very important recommendation.
I would just say for both of those that one has to keep some history in mind here. For the new organization, not surprisingly, governing council was very hands-on in the early years to make sure that in their judgment this important new organization was moving forward in the right direction.
So the IRP has said everything is going well. It is time for council to devolve down more to management of those issues. Those are two.
On peer review, the IRP also recommended a fresh look at how we do peer review. Peer review involves having other scientists sit around a committee like this and review grants that come in.
It is an issue everywhere in the world. It is a particular issue for us because we've stressed outcomes-driven research, and we've stressed multi-disciplinary research and knowledge translation, and these are more complex to review. So we have struck a committee called planning and peer review that will move forward in looking at how we restructure peer review in this country.