This will be a cross-government initiative. We'll be working very closely with Minister Bains and Minister McKenna across government to ensure the innovation investment is directed to where we think it can do the most good. If you look at the mandate letters that were sent to those ministers by the Prime Minister, you will see there is a very important cross-government commitment to innovation, in general, and in particular to clean green growth. We will be working with the private sector. We will actually be asking for proposals from the private sector to work with us.
We don't assume government has all the right answers on how these investments should be made. We do assume those investments will be more impactful if we work in partnership with those people who are devising some of the innovation, and who are implementing some of the innovation. You will find, over the next number of months and years, this government reaching out to the innovators, to the entrepreneurs, so we can work together in both the public and private sectors to make a difference.
By the way, on that very point, 20 prime ministers and presidents from around the world signed a mission innovation in Paris—I think November 30 was the date—that commits those 20 governments to doubling their investment in clean technologies, but there's also a private sector component. International billionaires, such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, have also committed themselves to put together a group of private investors who will join the public sector, globally, to ensure we can lever up these investments.
The same thing is implicit in the commitments we've made in this budget in the ways in which we will reach out across the sectors to entrepreneurs and innovators to ensure we're getting maximum leverage for the money we spend through the taxpayer.