Thank you, Mr. Chair.
What we mean by “within existing resources” is that we currently have people who have a certain expertise in this matter. They are in an area and they have not been provided with the tools to provide education to the rest of the department, to share the information in terms of how they're managing it. They currently are the experts, and they're doing it in addition to other work, so it would be a matter of realigning priorities within a sector, workloads within that sector, to make sure the people are more freed up to be able to do this kind of work in a concerted manner.
I also said in my opening remarks that we have been doing management of intellectual property within the department, but not within one framework policy, so there was more of a sector-by-sector approach. What we are doing now with the policy is making sure we have one consistent approach across the department. We will, therefore, have certain people who will be the experts in that policy and then will provide the tools to the remainder to implement the policy as written.
We are not, as has been mentioned by the Auditor General, a department for whom this is our primary reason to exist. Most of the intellectual property we generate is as a result of something else that we are working on. The policy itself will ensure that people will even recognize when they're creating intellectual property in a way that is more consistent.