Good afternoon, Mr. Dicerni, Ms. Gillis and Mr. Kennedy. Thank you for coming to answer our questions.
I would like to talk about the mandate of the NRC and NSERC in particular.
People want to change the NRC's mandate to make it a research services provider for industry. We don't necessarily want to change it, but rather have its direction be focused more on research for the industry. At the same time, we see in the budget that NSERC will receive $300 million for knowledge transfer.
What is the government's overall plan for the various research and development institutes, particularly the NRC and NSERC? Is there not some kind of overlap in the budgets and mandates for these two institutes?