The ITB policy, for those of you who may not know, was formerly known as the offset policy. Essentially it means that for every dollar we spend purchasing a defence good or service, a corresponding dollar gets spent in the economy. The challenge in the past was that the dollar wasn't directed anywhere specifically. We used a few systems, such as multipliers, to help it be directed, but the reality is that we had little influence over where that dollar was directed and what kind of job it went into.
Most recently, following 2014-15, the industrial and technological benefits program was introduced. When it was introduced, it was split into two pieces. One piece occurs prior to an acquisition being made and during the bidding phase of an acquisition. It's called the value proposition. Effectively, that is a tool to be able to direct work into certain sectors, segments, or types of work to be done in Canada. Suppliers or prime contractors are evaluated based on their ability to compete with other prime contractors. They are scored on that particular value to Canada.
The second piece of it is what I refer to as the “leftover” portion of that, the non-highly directed portion, which are the industrial and technological benefits. It's the remainder of the money. It too can be directed to certain sectors, segments, or types of things in the economy, depending on how aggressively we would like to use it.